On (14/07/07 10:28), Nick Piggin didst pronounce: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 04:56:10PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > On (12/07/07 22:32), Mel Gorman didst pronounce: > > > > > > Should we at least go for > > > > > > > > add-__gfp_movable-for-callers-to-flag-allocations-from-high-memory-that-may-be-migrated.patch > > > > create-the-zone_movable-zone.patch > > > > allow-huge-page-allocations-to-use-gfp_high_movable.patch > > > > handle-kernelcore=-generic.patch > > > > > > > > in 2.6.23? > > > > > > Well, yes please from me obviously :) . There is one additional patch > > > I would like to send on tomorrow and that is providing the movablecore= > > > > This is the patch. It has been boot-tested on a number of machines and > > behaves as expected. Nick, with this in addition, do you have any > > objection to the ZONE_MOVABLE patches going through to 2.6.23? > > What's the status of making it configurable? I didn't see something > in -mm for that yet? >
I have a patch that makes it configurable but Kamezawa-san posted a very promising patch about making all zones configurable in a very clever way which is more general than what I did. He posted it as an RFC[1] and there was feedback from Andy Whitcroft on how it could be made better so it wouldn't have been picked up for -mm but something is in the pipeline. I've tested his patch for zone movable and it worked as advertised so I intended to see post-merge window what else could be done with it clean-up wise. I am curious to see if it can also make ZONE_NORMAL configurable on machines that only have ZONE_DMA for example. > But that's not as important as ensuring the concept and user visible > stuff is in good shape, which I no longer have any problems with. Excellent. > So > yeah I think it would be good to get this in and get people up and > running with it. Thanks Nick. [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118405871911268&w=2 -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/