Joonsoo Kim <js1...@gmail.com> writes: > 2016-08-29 18:27 GMT+09:00 Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>: >> js1...@gmail.com writes: >> >>> From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo....@lge.com> >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Changes from v4 >>> o Rebase on next-20160825 >>> o Add general fix patch for lowmem reserve >>> o Fix lowmem reserve ratio >>> o Fix zone span optimizaion per Vlastimil >>> o Fix pageset initialization >>> o Change invocation timing on cma_init_reserved_areas() >> >> I don't see much information regarding how we interleave between >> ZONE_CMA and other zones for movable allocation. Is that explained in >> any of the patch ? The fair zone allocator got removed by >> e6cbd7f2efb433d717af72aa8510a9db6f7a7e05 > > Interleaving would not work since the fair zone allocator policy is removed. > I don't think that it's a big problem because it is just matter of > timing to fill > up the memory. Eventually, memory on ZONE_CMA will be fully used in > any case.
Does that mean a CMA allocation will now be slower because in most case we will need to reclaim ? The zone list will now have ZONE_CMA in the beginning right ? -aneesh