Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:37:27 +0000 (GMT) | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE |
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > >>> What is the e1000 problem? Jumbo packet allocation via GFP_KERNEL? >> Yes. Potentially the anti-fragmentation patches could address this by >> clustering atomic allocations together as much as possible. > > GFP_ATOMIC allocs?
Yes
> Do you have a reference to the thread where this was > discussed? >
It's come up a few times and the converation is always fairly similar although the thread http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/22/44 has interesting information on the topic. There has been no serious discussion on whether anti-fragmentation would help it or not. I think it would if atomic allocations were clustered together because then jumbo frame allocations would cluster together in the same MAX_ORDER blocks and tend to keep other allocations away.
-- 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 majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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