From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E735D6B004D for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:29:02 -0500 (EST) Received: by bwz28 with SMTP id 28so4838383bwz.14 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:29:00 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1235344649-18265-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> References: <1235344649-18265-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:29:00 +0200 Message-ID: <84144f020902222329u5754f8b1k790809191ac48f4a@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/20] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator From: Pekka Enberg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Mel Gorman Cc: Linux Memory Management List , Rik van Riel , KOSAKI Motohiro , Christoph Lameter , Johannes Weiner , Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Lin Ming , Zhang Yanmin List-ID: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > The complexity of the page allocator has been increasing for some time > and it has now reached the point where the SLUB allocator is doing strange > tricks to avoid the page allocator. This is obviously bad as it may encourage > other subsystems to try avoiding the page allocator as well. I'm not an expert on the page allocator but the series looks sane to me. Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Yanmin, it would be interesting to know if we still need 8K kmalloc caches with these patches applied. :-) Pekka -- 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