From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:36:34 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Reply-To: "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19 Message-ID: <306020000.1131032193@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <4369824E.2020407@yahoo.com.au> References: <4366C559.5090504@yahoo.com.au> <4366D469.2010202@yahoo.com.au> <20051101135651.GA8502@elte.hu> <1130854224.14475.60.camel@localhost> <20051101142959.GA9272@elte.hu> <1130856555.14475.77.camel@localhost> <20051101150142.GA10636@elte.hu> <1130858580.14475.98.camel@localhost> <20051102084946.GA3930@elte.hu> <436880B8.1050207@yahoo.com.au> <1130923969.15627.11.camel@localhost> <43688B74.20002@yahoo.com.au> <255360000.1130943722@[10.10.2.4]> <4369824E.2020407@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Dave Hansen , Ingo Molnar , Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , kravetz@us.ibm.com, linux-mm , Linux Kernel Mailing List , lhms , Arjan van de Ven List-ID: >> Can we quit coming up with specialist hacks for hotplug, and try to solve >> the generic problem please? hotplug is NOT the only issue here. Fragmentation >> in general is. >> > > Not really it isn't. There have been a few cases (e1000 being the main > one, and is fixed upstream) where fragmentation in general is a problem. > But mostly it is not. Sigh. OK, tell me how you're going to fix kernel stacks > 4K please. And devices that don't support scatter-gather DMA. M. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org