linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv21 08/16] mm: mmzone: MIGRATE

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Message-Id: <20120214172902.d76cfb31.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:29:02 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
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,
	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	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>,
	Rob Clark <rob.clark@...aro.org>,
	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv21 08/16] mm: mmzone: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added

On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:32:23 +0100
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com> wrote:

> From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
> 
> The MIGRATE_CMA migration type has two main characteristics:
> (i) only movable pages can be allocated from MIGRATE_CMA
> pageblocks and (ii) page allocator will never change migration
> type of MIGRATE_CMA pageblocks.
> 
> This guarantees (to some degree) that page in a MIGRATE_CMA page
> block can always be migrated somewhere else (unless there's no
> memory left in the system).
> 
> It is designed to be used for allocating big chunks (eg. 10MiB)
> of physically contiguous memory.  Once driver requests
> contiguous memory, pages from MIGRATE_CMA pageblocks may be
> migrated away to create a contiguous block.
> 
> To minimise number of migrations, MIGRATE_CMA migration type
> is the last type tried when page allocator falls back to other
> migration types when requested.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>
> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
> Tested-by: Rob Clark <rob.clark@...aro.org>
> Tested-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>
> Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...aro.org>

Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

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