Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934722AbdHYVcQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:32:16 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:49768 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932374AbdHYVcP (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:32:15 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 14:32:13 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: js1304@gmail.com Cc: Rik van Riel , Johannes Weiner , mgorman@techsingularity.net, Laura Abbott , Minchan Kim , Marek Szyprowski , Michal Nazarewicz , "Aneesh Kumar K . V" , Vlastimil Babka , Russell King , Will Deacon , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lge.com, Joonsoo Kim Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] mm/cma: manage the memory of the CMA area by using the ZONE_MOVABLE Message-Id: <20170825143213.5c7de68783b78fafb461c845@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1503556593-10720-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> References: <1503556593-10720-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1147 Lines: 29 On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:36:30 +0900 js1304@gmail.com wrote: > From: Joonsoo Kim > > This patchset is the follow-up of the discussion about the > "Introduce ZONE_CMA (v7)" [1]. Please reference it if more information > is needed. > > In this patchset, the memory of the CMA area is managed by using > the ZONE_MOVABLE. Since there is another type of the memory in this zone, > we need to maintain a migratetype for the CMA memory to account > the number of the CMA memory. So, unlike previous patchset, there is > less deletion of the code. > > Otherwise, there is no big change. > > Motivation of this patchset is described in the commit description of > the patch "mm/cma: manage the memory of the CMA area by using > the ZONE_MOVABLE". Please refer it for more information. > > This patchset is based on linux-next-20170822 plus > "mm/page_alloc: don't reserve ZONE_HIGHMEM for ZONE_MOVABLE". > But "mm/page_alloc: don't reserve ZONE_HIGHMEM for ZONE_MOVABLE" did not do very well at review - both Michal and Vlastimil are looking for changes. So we're not ready for a patch series which depends upon that one?