linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv24 00/16] Contiguous Memory Allocator

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1204101528390.9354@kernel.research.nokia.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:41:37 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@...ia.com>
To:	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
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	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rob Clark <rob.clark@...aro.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv24 00/16] Contiguous Memory Allocator

Hi,

On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> This is (yet another) update of CMA patches.

How well CMA is supposed to work if you have mlocked processes? I've
been testing these patches, and noticed that by creating a small mlocked
process you start to get plenty of test_pages_isolated() failure warnings,
and bigger allocations will always fail.

A.
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