From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: KUROSAWA Takahiro <kurosawa@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add the pzone
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:30:29 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43D09FA5.50806@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060120082242.8BEE57402D@sv1.valinux.co.jp>
KUROSAWA Takahiro wrote:
>> It looks you don't want to use functions based on zones, buddy-system, lru-list etc..
>> I think what you want is just a hierarchical memory allocator.
>> Why do you modify zone and make codes complicated ?
>> Can your memory allocater be implimented like mempool or hugetlb ?
>> They are not so invasive.
>
> mempool and hugetlb require their own shrinking code, don't they?
> I guess that we would need the routines like mm/vmscan.c if we are
> going to shrink user pages. Instead, I'd like to reuse the shrinking
> code in mm/vmscan.c.
>
I think you can reuse shrink_list() at least.
Code duplication you're afraid of can be small.
I think call shrink_list() from your own shrinking fuction will add
good control on CKRM's memory region.
-- Kame
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-20 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-19 8:04 [PATCH 0/2] Pzone based CKRM memory resource controller KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-01-19 8:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] Add the pzone KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-01-19 18:04 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-01-19 23:42 ` KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-01-20 9:17 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-01-20 7:08 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-01-20 8:22 ` KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-01-20 8:30 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [this message]
2006-01-19 8:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] Add CKRM memory resource controller using pzones KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-01-31 2:30 ` [PATCH 0/8] Pzone based CKRM memory resource controller KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-01-31 2:30 ` [PATCH 1/8] Add the __GFP_NOLRU flag KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-01-31 18:18 ` [ckrm-tech] " Dave Hansen
2006-02-01 5:06 ` KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-01-31 2:30 ` [PATCH 2/8] Keep the number of zones while zone iterator loop KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-01-31 2:30 ` [PATCH 3/8] Add for_each_zone_in_node macro KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-01-31 2:30 ` [PATCH 4/8] Extract zone specific routines as functions KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-01-31 2:30 ` [PATCH 5/8] Add the pzone_create() function KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-01-31 2:30 ` [PATCH 6/8] Add the pzone_destroy() function KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-01-31 2:30 ` [PATCH 7/8] Make the number of pages in pzones resizable KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-01-31 2:30 ` [PATCH 8/8] Add a CKRM memory resource controller using pzones KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-02-01 2:58 ` [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/8] Pzone based CKRM memory resource controller chandra seetharaman
2006-02-01 5:39 ` KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-02-01 6:16 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2006-02-02 1:26 ` chandra seetharaman
2006-02-02 3:54 ` KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-02-03 0:37 ` chandra seetharaman
2006-02-03 0:51 ` KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-02-03 1:01 ` chandra seetharaman
2006-02-01 3:07 ` chandra seetharaman
2006-02-01 5:54 ` KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-02-03 1:33 ` KUROSAWA Takahiro
2006-02-03 9:37 ` KUROSAWA Takahiro
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