Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE

[Mel Gorman]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> 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.

I agree but too many people are not pleased with the main allocator path 
being affected and wanted to see zones, so here we are :)

> Also avoids modifications to vmstat.c/.h ;-)

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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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