From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <429E4023.2010308@yahoo.com.au> Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:09:23 +1000 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Avoiding external fragmentation with a placement policy Version 12 References: <20050531112048.D2511E57A@skynet.csn.ul.ie> <429E20B6.2000907@austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <429E20B6.2000907@austin.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: jschopp@austin.ibm.com Cc: Mel Gorman , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org List-ID: Joel Schopp wrote: > > Other than the very minor whitespace changes above I have nothing bad to > say about this patch. I think it is about time to pick in up in -mm for > wider testing. > It adds a lot of complexity to the page allocator and while it might be very good, the only improvement we've been shown yet is allocating lots of MAX_ORDER allocations I think? (ie. not very useful) -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- 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: aart@kvack.org