linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] Introduce ZONE

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Date:   Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:57:29 +0530
From:   "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     js1304@...il.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        mgorman@...hsingularity.net, Laura Abbott <lauraa@...eaurora.org>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] Introduce ZONE_CMA

js1304@...il.com writes:

> From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
>
> Hello,
>
> Changes from v4
> o Rebase on next-20160825
> o Add general fix patch for lowmem reserve
> o Fix lowmem reserve ratio
> o Fix zone span optimizaion per Vlastimil
> o Fix pageset initialization
> o Change invocation timing on cma_init_reserved_areas()

I don't see much information regarding how we interleave between
ZONE_CMA and other zones for movable allocation. Is that explained in
any of the patch ? The fair zone allocator got removed by
e6cbd7f2efb433d717af72aa8510a9db6f7a7e05 

-aneesh