Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754752AbXIOPvT (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:51:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751531AbXIOPvF (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:51:05 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:59171 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751429AbXIOPvE (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:51:04 -0400 Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:51:01 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Goswin von Brederlow Cc: Andrew Morton , Joern Engel , Nick Piggin , Christoph Lameter , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Mel Gorman , William Lee Irwin III , David Chinner , Jens Axboe , Badari Pulavarty , Maxim Levitsky , Fengguang Wu , swin wang , totty.lu@gmail.com, hugh@veritas.com Subject: Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support) Message-ID: <20070915155100.GA21861@v2.random> References: <20070911060349.993975297@sgi.com> <200709110452.20363.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <20070911121225.GE13132@lazybastard.org> <20070915014449.4f9cdb51.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <87ir6c3z2l.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ir6c3z2l.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 735 Lines: 14 On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:14:42PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I keep coming back to the fact that movable objects should be moved > out of the way for unmovable ones. Anything else just allows That's incidentally exactly what the slab does, no need to reinvent the wheel for that, it's an old problem and there's room for optimization in the slab partial-reuse logic too. Just boost the order 0 page size and use the slab to get the 4k chunks. The sgi/defrag design is backwards. - 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/