Re: [RFC PATCH v2 14/15] mm: Add alloc-free handshake to trigger memory region compaction

2013-04-16 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
Hi Cody, Thank you for your review comments and sorry for the delay in replying! On 04/11/2013 04:56 AM, Cody P Schafer wrote: > On 04/09/2013 02:48 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> We need a way to decide when to trigger the worker threads to perform >> region evacuation/compaction. So the strate

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 14/15] mm: Add alloc-free handshake to trigger memory region compaction

2013-04-10 Thread Cody P Schafer
On 04/09/2013 02:48 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: We need a way to decide when to trigger the worker threads to perform region evacuation/compaction. So the strategy used is as follows: Alloc path of page allocator: This accurately tracks the allocations and detects t

[RFC PATCH v2 14/15] mm: Add alloc-free handshake to trigger memory region compaction

2013-04-09 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
We need a way to decide when to trigger the worker threads to perform region evacuation/compaction. So the strategy used is as follows: Alloc path of page allocator: This accurately tracks the allocations and detects the first allocation in a new region and notes down