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Message-ID: <CAOCHtYjc39ThfrcAqdsxNf-bFqKzu=T8=O_W9Cg3cRNzQnX-OQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:15:13 -0600
From:	Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@...il.com>
To:	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
Cc:	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	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, Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jesse Barker <jesse.barker@...aro.org>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rob Clark <rob.clark@...aro.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCHv21 12/16] mm: trigger page reclaim in
 alloc_contig_range() to stabilise watermarks

2012/2/13 Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>:
>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Marek Szyprowski
>> <m.szyprowski@...sung.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> @@ -5637,6 +5642,56 @@ static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(unsigned
>>> long start, unsigned long end)
>>>       return ret > 0 ? 0 : ret;
>>>  }
>>>
>>> +/*
>>> + * Update zone's cma pages counter used for watermark level calculation.
>>> + */
>>> +static inline void __update_cma_wmark_pages(struct zone *zone, int
>>> count)
>>> +{
>>> +       unsigned long flags;
>>> +       spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
>>> +       zone->min_cma_pages += count;
>>> +       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
>>> +       setup_per_zone_wmarks();
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +/*
>>> + * Trigger memory pressure bump to reclaim some pages in order to be
>>> able to
>>> + * allocate 'count' pages in single page units. Does similar work as
>>> + *__alloc_pages_slowpath() function.
>>> + */
>>> +static int __reclaim_pages(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, int count)
>>> +{
>>> +       enum zone_type high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask);
>>> +       struct zonelist *zonelist = node_zonelist(0, gfp_mask);
>>> +       int did_some_progress = 0;
>>> +       int order = 1;
>>> +       unsigned long watermark;
>>> +
>>> +       /*
>>> +        * Increase level of watermarks to force kswapd do his job
>>> +        * to stabilise at new watermark level.
>>> +        */
>>> +       __modify_min_cma_pages(zone, count);
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:57:58 -0800, Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@...il.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Marek,   This ^^^ function doesn't seem to exist in this patchset,
>> is it in another set posted to lkml?
>
>
> This should read __update_cma_wmark_pages().  Sorry for the incorrect patch.

Thanks Michal, that fixed it.. cma-v21 with Rob Clark's omapdrm works
great on the Beagle xM..

Regards

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/
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