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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>,
	Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 1/2] mm, swap: Use kvzalloc to allocate some swap data structure
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 14:32:27 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1703201430550.24991@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170320084732.3375-1-ying.huang@intel.com>

On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Huang, Ying wrote:

> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
> 
> Now vzalloc() is used in swap code to allocate various data
> structures, such as swap cache, swap slots cache, cluster info, etc.
> Because the size may be too large on some system, so that normal
> kzalloc() may fail.  But using kzalloc() has some advantages, for
> example, less memory fragmentation, less TLB pressure, etc.  So change
> the data structure allocation in swap code to use kvzalloc() which
> will try kzalloc() firstly, and fallback to vzalloc() if kzalloc()
> failed.
> 

As questioned in -v1 of this patch, what is the benefit of directly 
compacting and reclaiming memory for high-order pages by first preferring 
kmalloc() if this does not require contiguous memory?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-20 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-20  8:47 Huang, Ying
2017-03-20  8:47 ` [PATCH -v2 2/2] mm, swap: Sort swap entries before free Huang, Ying
2017-03-20 21:32 ` David Rientjes [this message]
2017-03-24  2:41   ` [PATCH -v2 1/2] mm, swap: Use kvzalloc to allocate some swap data structure Huang, Ying
2017-03-24  4:27     ` John Hubbard
2017-03-24  4:52       ` Huang, Ying
2017-03-24  6:48         ` John Hubbard
2017-03-24  7:16           ` Huang, Ying
2017-03-24  7:33             ` John Hubbard
2017-03-24 13:56               ` Dave Hansen
2017-03-24 16:52                 ` Tim Chen
2017-03-24 18:15                   ` John Hubbard
2017-03-30 16:31                 ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-01  4:47                   ` Huang, Ying
2017-04-03  8:15                     ` Michal Hocko
2017-04-05  0:49                       ` Huang, Ying
2017-04-05 13:43                 ` Vlastimil Babka

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