Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266341AbUJAUPG (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Oct 2004 16:15:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266245AbUJAULS (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Oct 2004 16:11:18 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:646 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266308AbUJAUII (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Oct 2004 16:08:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 13:11:47 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, piggin@cyberone.com.au, arjanv@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] memory defragmentation to satisfy high order allocations Message-Id: <20041001131147.3780722b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20041001182221.GA3191@logos.cnet> References: <20041001182221.GA3191@logos.cnet> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-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 X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 891 Lines: 21 Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > The following patch implements a "coalesce_memory()" function > which takes "zone" and "order" as a parameter. > > It tries to move enough physically nearby pages to form a free area > of "order" size. > > It does that by checking whether the page can be moved, allocating a new page, > unmapping the pte's to it, copying data to new page, remapping the ptes, > and reinserting the page on the radix/LRU. Presumably this duplicates some of the memory hot-remove patches. Apparently Dave Hansen has working and sane-looking hot remove code which is in a close-to-submittable state. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/