From: Ray Bryant <raybry@engr.sgi.com>
To: jschopp@austin.ibm.com
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Avoiding external fragmentation with a placement policy Version 12
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:50:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <429F631E.6020401@engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <429F2B26.9070509@austin.ibm.com>
> In summary here are the reasons I see to run with Mel's patch:
>
> 1. It really helps with medium-large allocations under memory pressure.
> 2. Page migration defrag will need it.
> 3. Memory hotplug remove will need it.
>
Could someone point me at the "Page migration defrag" patch, or
describe what this is. Does this depend on the page migration
patches from memory hotplug to move pages or is it something
different?
Thanks,
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Best Regards,
Ray
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-02 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-31 11:20 Mel Gorman
2005-06-01 20:55 ` Joel Schopp
2005-06-01 23:09 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-01 23:23 ` David S. Miller, Nick Piggin
2005-06-01 23:28 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-01 23:43 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-02 0:02 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-02 0:20 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-02 13:55 ` Mel Gorman
2005-06-02 15:52 ` Joel Schopp
2005-06-02 19:50 ` Ray Bryant [this message]
2005-06-02 20:10 ` Joel Schopp
2005-06-04 16:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-06-03 3:48 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-03 4:49 ` David S. Miller, Nick Piggin
2005-06-03 5:34 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-03 5:37 ` David S. Miller, Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-03 5:42 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-03 5:51 ` David S. Miller, Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-03 13:13 ` Mel Gorman
2005-06-03 6:43 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-03 13:57 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-03 16:43 ` Dave Hansen
2005-06-03 18:43 ` David S. Miller, Dave Hansen
2005-06-04 1:44 ` Herbert Xu
2005-06-04 2:15 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-05 19:52 ` David S. Miller, Nick Piggin
2005-06-03 13:05 ` Mel Gorman
2005-06-03 14:00 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-08 17:03 ` Mel Gorman
2005-06-08 17:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-10 16:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-10 17:53 ` Steve Lord
2005-06-02 18:28 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-02 18:42 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-02 13:15 ` Mel Gorman
2005-06-02 14:01 ` Martin J. Bligh
[not found] ` <20050603174706.GA25663@localhost.localdomain>
2005-06-03 17:56 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-06-01 23:47 ` Mike Kravetz
2005-06-01 23:56 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-02 0:07 ` Mike Kravetz
2005-06-02 9:49 ` Mel Gorman
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