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Message-ID: <op.v8o62ey93l0zgt@mpn-glaptop>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:38:28 +0100
From:	"Michal Nazarewicz" <mina86@...a86.com>
To:	"Marek Szyprowski" <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org,
	"Kyungmin Park" <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	"Russell King" <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Daniel Walker" <dwalker@...eaurora.org>,
	"Mel Gorman" <mel@....ul.ie>,
	"Jesse Barker" <jesse.barker@...aro.org>,
	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@....net>,
	"Shariq Hasnain" <shariq.hasnain@...aro.org>,
	"Chunsang Jeong" <chunsang.jeong@...aro.org>,
	"Dave Hansen" <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Benjamin Gaignard" <benjamin.gaignard@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv19 00/15] Contiguous Memory Allocator

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:31:40 +0100, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> I haven't followed the last two releases so closely. It seems that
> in v17 the movable pages with pending i/o was still a major problem
> but in v18 you added a solution. Is that right? What is still left
> to be done here then?

In the current version, when allocation fails because of a page with
pending I/O, CMA automatically tries allocation in another region.

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