Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161124AbXAZSUW (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:20:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161139AbXAZSUW (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:20:22 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:41149 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161124AbXAZSUV (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:20:21 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:20:12 -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: 552 Lines: 13 On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > The zone-based approach does nothing to help jumbo frame allocations. It only > helps hugepage allocations at runtime and potentially memory hot-remove. Sounds like the max order based approach is better in many ways. Also avoids modifications to vmstat.c/.h ;-) - 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/