Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support) | Date | Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:43:53 +1000 |
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On Wednesday 12 September 2007 06:01, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > There is a limitation in the VM. Fragmentation. You keep saying this > > is a solved issue and just assuming you'll be able to fix any cases > > that come up as they happen. > > > > I still don't get the feeling you realise that there is a fundamental > > fragmentation issue that is unsolvable with Mel's approach. > > Well my problem first of all is that you did not read the full message. It > discusses that later and provides page pools to address the issue. > > Secondly you keep FUDding people with lots of theoretical concerns > assuming Mel's approaches must fail. If there is an issue (I guess there > must be right?) then please give us a concrete case of a failure that we > can work against.
On the other hand, you ignore the potential failure cases, and ignore the alternatives that do not have such cases. - 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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