Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Aug 2017 14:32:13 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] mm/cma: manage the memory of the CMA area by using the ZONE_MOVABLE |
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:36:30 +0900 js1304@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> > > This patchset is the follow-up of the discussion about the > "Introduce ZONE_CMA (v7)" [1]. Please reference it if more information > is needed. > > In this patchset, the memory of the CMA area is managed by using > the ZONE_MOVABLE. Since there is another type of the memory in this zone, > we need to maintain a migratetype for the CMA memory to account > the number of the CMA memory. So, unlike previous patchset, there is > less deletion of the code. > > Otherwise, there is no big change. > > Motivation of this patchset is described in the commit description of > the patch "mm/cma: manage the memory of the CMA area by using > the ZONE_MOVABLE". Please refer it for more information. > > This patchset is based on linux-next-20170822 plus > "mm/page_alloc: don't reserve ZONE_HIGHMEM for ZONE_MOVABLE". >
But "mm/page_alloc: don't reserve ZONE_HIGHMEM for ZONE_MOVABLE" did not do very well at review - both Michal and Vlastimil are looking for changes. So we're not ready for a patch series which depends upon that one?
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