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

[Nick Piggin]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Friday 04 November 2005 22:31, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>
> > Thats the idea. The 'hugetlb zone' will only be usable for allocations
> > which are guaranteed reclaimable.  Reclaimable includes userspace
> > usage (since at worst an in use userspace page can be swapped out then
> > paged back into another physical location).
>
>
> I don't like it very much. You have two choices if a workload runs
> out of the kernel allocatable pages. Either you spill into the reclaimable
> zone or you fail the allocation. The first means that the huge pages
> thing is unreliable, the second would mean that all the many problems
> of limited lowmem would be back.

These are essentially the same problems that the frag patches face as
well.

> None of this is very attractive.

Though it is simple and I expect it should actually do a really good
job for the non-kernel-intensive HPC group, and the highly tuned
database group.

Nick

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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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