Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] big chunk memory allocator v2

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Oct 29 2010 - 06:29:47 EST


> When I was posting CMA, it had been suggested to create a new migration type
> dedicated to contiguous allocations. I think I already did that and thanks to
> this new migration type we have (i) an area of memory that only accepts movable
> and reclaimable pages and

Aka highmem next generation :-(

> (ii) is used only if all other (non-reserved) pages have
> been allocated.

That will be near always the case after some uptime, as memory fills up
with caches. Unless you do early reclaim?

-Andi

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