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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: High-order per-cpu page allocator v3
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:47:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161128184758.bcz5ar5svv7whnqi@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1611281037400.29533@east.gentwo.org>

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:38:58AM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > that only insiders know how to tune and an overall fragile solution.
> > While I agree with all of this, it's also a problem independent of this
> > patch.
> 
> It is related. The fundamental issue with fragmentation remain and IMHO we
> really need to tackle this.
> 

Fragmentation is one issue. Allocation scalability is a separate issue.
This patch is about scaling parallel allocations of small contiguous
ranges. Even if there were fragmentation-related patches up for discussion,
they would not be directly affected by this patch.

If you have a series aimed at parts of the fragmentation problem or how
subsystems can avoid tracking 4K pages in some important cases then by
all means post them.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-28 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-27 13:19 Mel Gorman
2016-11-28 11:00 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-11-28 11:45   ` Mel Gorman
2016-11-30  8:55   ` Mel Gorman
2016-11-28 15:39 ` Christoph Lameter
2016-11-28 16:21   ` Mel Gorman
2016-11-28 16:38     ` Christoph Lameter
2016-11-28 18:47       ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2016-11-28 18:54         ` Christoph Lameter
2016-11-28 20:59           ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-11-28 19:54 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-11-30 12:40 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-11-30 14:06   ` Mel Gorman
2016-11-30 15:06     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-11-30 16:35       ` Mel Gorman
2016-12-01 17:34         ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-12-01 22:17           ` Paolo Abeni
2016-12-02 15:37             ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2016-12-02 15:44               ` Paolo Abeni
2016-11-30 13:05 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-30 14:16   ` Mel Gorman
2016-11-30 14:59     ` Michal Hocko

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