From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:20:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070125234458.28809.5412.sendpatchset@skynet.skynet.ie> <20070125234558.28809.21103.sendpatchset@skynet.skynet.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > >> Because Andrew has made it pretty clear he will not take those patches on the >> grounds of complexity - at least until it can be shown that they fix the e1000 >> problem. Any improvement on the behavior of those patches such as address >> biasing to allow memory hot-remove of the higher addresses makes them even >> more complex. > > What is the e1000 problem? Jumbo packet allocation via GFP_KERNEL? > Yes. Potentially the anti-fragmentation patches could address this by clustering atomic allocations together as much as possible. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- 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