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

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Jan 26 2007 - 12:04:35 EST


On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:

> Because Andrew has made it pretty clear he will not take those patches on the
> grounds of complexity - at least until it can be shown that they fix the e1000
> problem. Any improvement on the behavior of those patches such as address
> biasing to allow memory hot-remove of the higher addresses makes them even
> more complex.

What is the e1000 problem? Jumbo packet allocation via GFP_KERNEL?
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