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:
>
> > 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?

Yes. Potentially the anti-fragmentation patches could address this by 
clustering atomic allocations together as much as possible.

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