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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/11] Add __GFP_MOVABLE flag and update callers
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:28:45 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611270926270.1515@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611271628260.18063@skynet.skynet.ie>

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Mel Gorman wrote:

> Later, MOVABLE might be a constraint. For example, hotpluggable nodes may only
> allow MOVABLE allocations to be allocated.

Also, (a much more immediate need since we have memory hotplug already) if 
a zone has hotpluggable memory then MOVABLE/unmovable allocations need to 
be restricted to a portion of the zone. The plugin/plugout memory area of 
a zone will not be able to tolerate unmovable allocations.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-27 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-21 22:50 [PATCH 0/11] Avoiding fragmentation with page clustering v27 Mel Gorman
2006-11-21 22:50 ` [PATCH 1/11] Add __GFP_MOVABLE flag and update callers Mel Gorman
2006-11-21 23:30   ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-21 23:43     ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-21 23:51       ` Dave Hansen
2006-11-22  0:44       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-23 16:36         ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-23 17:11           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-24 10:44             ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-24 19:57               ` Hugh Dickins
2006-11-24 20:13                 ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-24 21:06                   ` Hugh Dickins
2006-11-25 11:47                     ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-25 19:01                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-26  0:44                   ` Hugh Dickins
2006-11-27 16:32                     ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-27 17:28                       ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2006-11-27 19:48                     ` Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations that may be migrated Mel Gorman
2006-11-24 17:59             ` [PATCH 1/11] Add __GFP_MOVABLE flag and update callers Christoph Lameter
2006-11-24 18:11               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-24 20:04               ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-22  2:25       ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-23 15:00         ` Mel Gorman
2006-11-21 22:51 ` [PATCH 2/11] Split the free lists for movable and unmovable allocations Mel Gorman
2006-11-21 22:51 ` [PATCH 3/11] Choose pages from the per-cpu list based on migration type Mel Gorman
2006-11-21 22:51 ` [PATCH 4/11] Add a configure option for page clustering Mel Gorman
2006-11-21 22:52 ` [PATCH 5/11] Drain per-cpu lists when high-order allocations fail Mel Gorman
2006-11-21 22:52 ` [PATCH 6/11] Move free pages between lists on steal Mel Gorman
2006-11-21 22:52 ` [PATCH 7/11] Mark short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations Mel Gorman
2006-11-21 22:53 ` [PATCH 8/11] [DEBUG] Add statistics Mel Gorman
2006-11-21 22:53 ` [PATCH 9/11] Add a bitmap that is used to track flags affecting a block of pages Mel Gorman
2006-11-21 22:53 ` [PATCH 10/11] Remove dependency on page->flag bits Mel Gorman
2006-11-21 22:54 ` [PATCH 11/11] Use pageblock flags for page clustering Mel Gorman

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