linux-kernel - Re: -mm merge plans -- anti-fragmentation

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707130951260.21777@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:58:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>, npiggin@...e.de,
	kenchen@...gle.com, jschopp@...tin.ibm.com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	y-goto@...fujitsu.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: -mm merge plans -- anti-fragmentation

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

> I would like to see ZONE_MOVABLE and lumpy considered for 2.6.23.

Agree. ZONE_MOVABLE is a way to guarantee a reclaimable memory area which 
is beneficial for the antifrag approach (and it will help to get more 
reliable allocations of higher order pages in SLUB if one chooses to 
use these...).
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