Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759508AbYAJTwR (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:52:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755289AbYAJTwE (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:52:04 -0500 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.171.30]:38009 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755450AbYAJTwD (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:52:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:52:02 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Andi Kleen cc: Linus Torvalds , Matt Mackall , Pekka J Enberg , Ingo Molnar , Hugh Dickins , Peter Zijlstra , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] greatly reduce SLOB external fragmentation In-Reply-To: <20080110195329.GB2120@one.firstfloor.org> Message-ID: References: <1199906151.6245.57.camel@cinder.waste.org> <1199919548.6245.74.camel@cinder.waste.org> <1199987366.5331.92.camel@cinder.waste.org> <1199990565.5331.130.camel@cinder.waste.org> <20080110195329.GB2120@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 650 Lines: 14 On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > I did essentially that for my GBpages hugetlbfs patchkit. GB pages are already > beyond MAX_ORDER and increasing MAX_ORDER didn't seem attractive because > it would require aligning the zones all to 1GB which would quite nasty. I am very very interested in that work and I could not find it when I looked for it a couple of weeks back. Can you sent me a copy? -- 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/