Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030756AbXAZRER (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:04:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030865AbXAZRER (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:04:17 -0500 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:60503 "EHLO omx1.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030861AbXAZREP (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:04:15 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:04:10 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter To: Mel Gorman cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070125234458.28809.5412.sendpatchset@skynet.skynet.ie> <20070125234558.28809.21103.sendpatchset@skynet.skynet.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 682 Lines: 14 On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > Because Andrew has made it pretty clear he will not take those patches on the > grounds of complexity - at least until it can be shown that they fix the e1000 > problem. Any improvement on the behavior of those patches such as address > biasing to allow memory hot-remove of the higher addresses makes them even > more complex. What is the e1000 problem? Jumbo packet allocation via GFP_KERNEL? - 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/