Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

From: Yasunori Goto
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 03:34:12 EST


> > One other thing, if we decide to take the zones approach, it would have
> > no other side benefits for the kernel. It would be for hotplug only and
> > I don't think even the large page users would get much benefit.
> >
>
> Hugepage users? They can be satisfied with ZONE_REMOVABLE too. If you're
> talking about other higher-order users, I still think we can't guarantee
> past about order 1 or 2 with Mel's patch and they simply need to have
> some other ways to do things.

Hmmm. I don't see at this point.
Why do you think ZONE_REMOVABLE can satisfy for hugepage.
At leaset, my ZONE_REMOVABLE patch doesn't any concern about
fragmentation.

Bye.

--
Yasunori Goto

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