From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Do not annotate shmem allocations explicitly
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:12:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705161611530.12119@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070516230150.10314.37438.sendpatchset@skynet.skynet.ie>
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:
> shmem support allocates pages for two purposes. Firstly, shmem_dir_alloc()
> allocates pages to track swap vectors. These are not movable so this
> patch clears all mobility-flags related to the allocation. Secondly,
> shmem_alloc_pages() allocates pages on behalf of shmem_getpage(), whose
> flags come from a file mapping which already sets the appropriate mobility
> flags. These allocations do not need to be explicitly flagged so this patch
> removes the unnecessary annotations.
I do not feel really competent on shmem.... but
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-16 23:01 [PATCH 0/5] Annotation fixes for grouping pages by mobility Mel Gorman
2007-05-16 23:01 ` [PATCH 1/5] Mark bio_alloc() allocations correctly Mel Gorman
2007-05-16 23:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 23:01 ` [PATCH 2/5] Do not annotate shmem allocations explicitly Mel Gorman
2007-05-16 23:12 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-05-16 23:02 ` [PATCH 3/5] Add __GFP_TEMPORARY to identify allocations that are short-lived Mel Gorman
2007-05-16 23:02 ` [PATCH 4/5] Rename GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE to GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE Mel Gorman
2007-05-16 23:02 ` [PATCH 5/5] Mark page cache pages as __GFP_PAGECACHE instead of __GFP_MOVABLE Mel Gorman
2007-05-16 23:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-16 23:19 ` Mel Gorman
2007-05-17 10:10 [PATCH 0/5] Annotation fixes for grouping pages by mobility v2 Mel Gorman
2007-05-17 10:11 ` [PATCH 2/5] Do not annotate shmem allocations explicitly Mel Gorman
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