linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH

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Date:	Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:04:10 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE

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?
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