From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:20:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: exempt pcp alloc from watermarks In-Reply-To: <1158583495.23551.53.camel@twins> Message-ID: References: <20060914220011.2be9100a.akpm@osdl.org> <20060914234926.9b58fd77.pj@sgi.com> <20060915002325.bffe27d1.akpm@osdl.org> <20060915012810.81d9b0e3.akpm@osdl.org> <20060915203816.fd260a0b.pj@sgi.com> <20060915214822.1c15c2cb.akpm@osdl.org> <20060916043036.72d47c90.pj@sgi.com> <20060916081846.e77c0f89.akpm@osdl.org> <20060917022834.9d56468a.pj@sgi.com> <450D1A94.7020100@yahoo.com.au> <20060917041525.4ddbd6fa.pj@sgi.com> <450D434B.4080702@yahoo.com.au> <20060917061922.45695dcb.pj@sgi.com> <450D5310.50004@yahoo.com.au> <1158583495.23551.53.camel@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Nick Piggin , Paul Jackson , akpm@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, rientjes@google.com, ak@suse.de List-ID: On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 23:52 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > What we could do then, is allocate pages in batches (we already do), > > but only check watermarks if we have to go to the buddly allocator > > (we don't currently do this, but really should anyway, considering > > that the watermark checks are based on pages in the buddy allocator > > rather than pages in buddy + pcp). buffered_rmqueue has never checked watermarks. Seems that this is a fragment of a larger discussion and someone added those checks? -- 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