On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:12:43AM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > > > > Just out of curiosity, "new zone"? Something like movable zone? > > > > Yes, I named it as ZONE_CMA. Maybe I can send prototype of > > implementation within 1 or 2 weeks. > > Ugghh. I'd rather reduce the zone types. Do we need slab allocator etc > allocations in that zone? This will multiply the management structures in > various subsystems.
Hello, Pages in CMA area should be movable so slab allocator which uses unmovable/reclaimable allocation wouldn't need to consider that zone. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
