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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Apply memory policies to top two highest zones when highest zone is ZONE_MOVABLE
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:03:42 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708081002470.12640@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070808164944.GA974@skynet.ie>

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:

> Despite a fairly specific case, I'd still like to get the problem fixed
> for 2.6.23. I've posted up an alternative fix under the subject "Use one
> zonelist per node instead of multiple zonelists v2". It's a more invasive
> fix although arguably it's better overall than the hack because it's not
> dealing with a specific special case and has a sensible path forward that
> makes policies a saner ultimately. However, unlike the hack it affects all
> callers of the page allocator so lets see what the reaction from reviewers
> is before forgetting about the hack altogether.

Well its more a precursor to things to come than a hack. If the tests go 
well for the single zonelist scheme then we may end up doing what the 
patch did for the mpol_bind zonelists for all allocations.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-08 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-02 17:21 Mel Gorman
2007-08-02 19:41 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-08-02 20:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 19:44   ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-06 20:13     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 21:56   ` Paul Jackson
2007-08-03 22:02 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-04  0:23   ` Mel Gorman
2007-08-04  8:51     ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-04 16:39       ` Mel Gorman
2007-08-06 19:15   ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-06 19:18     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 20:31     ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-06 21:55       ` Mel Gorman
2007-08-07  5:12         ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-07 16:55           ` Mel Gorman
2007-08-07 18:14             ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-07 20:37               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-08 16:49               ` Mel Gorman
2007-08-08 17:03                 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-08-06 21:48     ` Mel Gorman
2007-08-06 22:31       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-06 22:57         ` Mel Gorman

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