From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e33.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8QLm254012103 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:48:02 -0400 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.7) with ESMTP id j8QLnMrJ543872 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:49:22 -0600 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8QLnLUL004576 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:49:21 -0600 Message-ID: <43386CDF.5070905@austin.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:49:19 -0500 From: Joel Schopp MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/9] fragmentation avoidance References: <4338537E.8070603@austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4338537E.8070603@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: Andrew Morton Cc: Joel Schopp , lhms , Linux Memory Management List , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman , Mike Kravetz List-ID: > well. I believe the patches are now ready for inclusion in -mm, and after > wider testing inclusion in the mainline kernel. > > The patch set consists of 9 patches that can be merged in 4 separate > blocks, > with the only dependency being that the lower numbered patches are merged > first. All are against 2.6.13. > Patch 1 defines the allocation flags and adds them to the allocator calls. > Patch 2 defines some new structures and the macros used to access them. > Patch 3-8 implement the fully functional fragmentation avoidance. > Patch 9 is trivial but useful for memory hotplug remove. > --- > Patch 10 -- not ready for merging -- extends fragmentation avoidance to the > percpu allocator. This patch works on 2.6.13-rc1 but only with NUMA off on > 2.6.13; I am having a great deal of trouble tracking down why, help > would be > appreciated. I include the patch for review and test purposes as I plan to > submit it for merging after resolving the NUMA issues. It was pointed out that I did not make it clear that I would like the 9 patches in this series merged into -mm. They are ready to go. Patch 10 is just a bonus patch you can ignore. -- 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