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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:20:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> 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, Christoph Lameter wrote: > 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? > Yes. Potentially the anti-fragmentation patches could address this by clustering atomic allocations together as much as possible. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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