Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 May 2008 12:22:35 +0800 | From | "Bryan Wu" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] [mm] buddy page allocator: add tunable big order allocation |
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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Hennerich, Michael <Michael.Hennerich@analog.com> wrote: > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [mailto:kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com] > >Sent: Dienstag, 13. Mai 2008 04:09 > >To: Bryan Wu > >Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-mm@kvack.org; > dwmw2@infradead.org; > >Michael Hennerich > >Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] [mm] buddy page allocator: add tunable big > order > >allocation > > > >On Mon, 12 May 2008 18:32:02 +0800 > >Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> wrote: > > > >> From: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> > >> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> > > > >Does this really solve your problem ? possible hang-up is better than > >page allocation failure ? > > On nommu this helped quite a bit, when we run out of memory, eaten up by > the page cache. But yes - with this option it's likely that we sit there > and wait form memory that might never get available. > > We now use a better workaround for freeing up "available" memory > currently used as page cache. > > I think we should drop this patch. >
OK, I dropped it. And do you think the limited page_cache patch is the replacement of this patch?
-Bryan
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