Re: [RFC PATCH v3 08/35] mm: Demarcate and maintain pageblocks in region-order in the zones' freelists

2013-09-04 Thread Yasuaki Ishimatsu
(2013/08/30 22:16), Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: The zones' freelists need to be made region-aware, in order to influence page allocation and freeing algorithms. So in every free list in the zone, we would like to demarcate the pageblocks belonging to different memory regions (we can do this using a

Re: [RFC PATCH v3 08/35] mm: Demarcate and maintain pageblocks in region-order in the zones' freelists

2013-09-04 Thread Yasuaki Ishimatsu
(2013/08/30 22:16), Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: The zones' freelists need to be made region-aware, in order to influence page allocation and freeing algorithms. So in every free list in the zone, we would like to demarcate the pageblocks belonging to different memory regions (we can do this using a

[RFC PATCH v3 08/35] mm: Demarcate and maintain pageblocks in region-order in the zones' freelists

2013-08-30 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
The zones' freelists need to be made region-aware, in order to influence page allocation and freeing algorithms. So in every free list in the zone, we would like to demarcate the pageblocks belonging to different memory regions (we can do this using a set of pointers, and thus avoid splitting up

[RFC PATCH v3 08/35] mm: Demarcate and maintain pageblocks in region-order in the zones' freelists

2013-08-30 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
The zones' freelists need to be made region-aware, in order to influence page allocation and freeing algorithms. So in every free list in the zone, we would like to demarcate the pageblocks belonging to different memory regions (we can do this using a set of pointers, and thus avoid splitting up

[RFC PATCH v3 08/35] mm: Demarcate and maintain pageblocks in region-order in the zones' freelists

2013-08-30 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
The zones' freelists need to be made region-aware, in order to influence page allocation and freeing algorithms. So in every free list in the zone, we would like to demarcate the pageblocks belonging to different memory regions (we can do this using a set of pointers, and thus avoid splitting up

[RFC PATCH v3 08/35] mm: Demarcate and maintain pageblocks in region-order in the zones' freelists

2013-08-30 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
The zones' freelists need to be made region-aware, in order to influence page allocation and freeing algorithms. So in every free list in the zone, we would like to demarcate the pageblocks belonging to different memory regions (we can do this using a set of pointers, and thus avoid splitting up