From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <436BF606.3020805@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:00:06 +1100 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Clean up of __alloc_pages References: <20051028183326.A28611@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <4362DF80.3060802@yahoo.com.au> <1130792107.4853.24.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> <4366C188.5090607@yahoo.com.au> <1131128108.27563.11.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1131128108.27563.11.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rohit Seth Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Rohit Seth wrote: > > Nick, sorry for not responding earlier. > That's OK. > I agree that it is slight change in behavior from original. I doubt > though it will impact any one in any negative way (may be for some > higher order allocations if at all). On a little positive side, less > frequent calls to kswapd for some cases and clear up the code a little > bit. > I really don't want a change of behaviour going in with this, especially not one which I would want to revert anyway. But don't get hung up with it - when you post your latest patch I will make a patch for the changes I would like to see for it and synch things up. > But I really don't want to get stuck here. The pcp traversal and > flushing is where I want to go next. > Sure, hope it goes well! Nick -- 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: email@kvack.org