From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 15:42:40 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] Explicitly retry hugepage allocations In-Reply-To: <20080208234031.GE27150@us.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <20080206230726.GF3477@us.ibm.com> <20080206231243.GG3477@us.ibm.com> <20080208171132.GE15903@us.ibm.com> <20080208234031.GE27150@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nishanth Aravamudan Cc: melgor@ie.ibm.com, apw@shadowen.org, agl@us.ibm.com, wli@holomorphy.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > make higher order allocations coming from hugetlb.c use the __REPEAT > logic I'm trying to add. If the method seems good in general, then we > just need to mark other locations (SLUB allocation paths?) with > __GFP_REPEAT. When slub_min_order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER, then we > shouldn't see any difference and when it is greater, we should hit the > logic I added. Does that seem reasonable to you? I think it's a separate > idea, though, and I'd prefer keeping it in a separate patch, if that's > ok with you. Fine with me. -- 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