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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@...>

To: Mel Gorman <mel@...>

Cc: <linux-mm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE

Date: Friday, January 26, 2007 - 2:20 pm

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:

quoted text> The zone-based approach does nothing to help jumbo frame allocations. It only
> helps hugepage allocations at runtime and potentially memory hot-remove.

Sounds like the max order based approach is better in many ways. Also 
avoids modifications to vmstat.c/.h ;-)

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[PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between ..., Mel Gorman, (Thu Jan 25, 7:44 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 26, 12:21 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Mel Gorman, (Fri Jan 26, 12:48 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 26, 1:02 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Mel Gorman, (Fri Jan 26, 1:20 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Andrew Morton, (Fri Jan 26, 7:07 am)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 26, 11:56 am)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Andrew Morton, (Fri Jan 26, 3:46 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 26, 3:58 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Andrew Morton, (Fri Jan 26, 4:27 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Christoph Lameter, (Mon Jan 29, 5:54 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Andrew Morton, (Mon Jan 29, 6:36 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Christoph Lameter, (Mon Jan 29, 6:45 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Russell King, (Mon Jan 29, 6:50 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Christoph Lameter, (Mon Jan 29, 7:37 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Andrew Morton, (Mon Jan 29, 8:09 pm)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Feb 2, 1:22 am)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Peter Zijlstra, (Tue Jan 30, 5:53 am)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Feb 2, 1:27 am)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Mel Gorman, (Fri Jan 26, 10:29 am)

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory betw..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 26, 12:01 pm)

[PATCH 1/8] Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocation..., Mel Gorman, (Thu Jan 25, 7:45 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/8] Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag alloca..., Nick Piggin, (Fri Jan 26, 8:27 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/8] Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag alloca..., Mel Gorman, (Fri Jan 26, 9:25 am)

[PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVA..., Mel Gorman, (Thu Jan 25, 7:45 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 26, 12:33 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_..., Mel Gorman, (Fri Jan 26, 12:58 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 26, 1:04 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_..., Mel Gorman, (Fri Jan 26, 1:20 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 26, 1:22 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_..., Mel Gorman, (Fri Jan 26, 1:37 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 26, 1:45 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_..., Mel Gorman, (Fri Jan 26, 1:53 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_..., Chris Friesen, (Fri Jan 26, 2:35 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_..., Mel Gorman, (Fri Jan 26, 4:44 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_..., Chris Friesen, (Fri Jan 26, 5:37 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 26, 2:20 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_..., Mel Gorman, (Fri Jan 26, 4:37 pm)

[PATCH 2/8] Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone, Mel Gorman, (Thu Jan 25, 7:45 pm)

Re: [PATCH 2/8] Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone, Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 26, 1:16 pm)

Re: [PATCH 2/8] Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone, Mel Gorman, (Mon Jan 29, 1:31 pm)

Re: [PATCH 2/8] Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone, Mel Gorman, (Fri Jan 26, 1:24 pm)

Re: [PATCH 2/8] Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone, Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 26, 1:25 pm)

Re: [PATCH 2/8] Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone, Mel Gorman, (Fri Jan 26, 1:38 pm)

Re: [PATCH 2/8] Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone, Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 26, 12:28 pm)

Re: [PATCH 2/8] Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone, Mel Gorman, (Mon Jan 29, 1:28 pm)

Re: [PATCH 2/8] Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone, Mel Gorman, (Fri Jan 26, 12:49 pm)

[PATCH 8/8] Add documentation for additional boot parameter ..., Mel Gorman, (Thu Jan 25, 7:47 pm)

[PATCH 7/8] ia64 - Specify amount of kernel memory at boot t..., Mel Gorman, (Thu Jan 25, 7:47 pm)

[PATCH 6/8] x86_64 - Specify amount of kernel memory at boot..., Mel Gorman, (Thu Jan 25, 7:46 pm)

[PATCH 5/8] ppc and powerpc - Specify amount of kernel memor..., Mel Gorman, (Thu Jan 25, 7:46 pm)

[PATCH 4/8] x86 - Specify amount of kernel memory at boot time, Mel Gorman, (Thu Jan 25, 7:46 pm)

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