[PATCH 0/7] [RFC] Sizing zones and holes in an architecture independent manner V2

Mel Gorman mel at skynet.ie
Sat Apr 15 08:54:07 EST 2006


On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Luck, Tony wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 02:12:35PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
>> That appears fine, but I call add_active_range() after a GRANULEROUNDUP and
>> GRANULEROUNDDOWN has taken place so that might be the problem, especially as
>> all those ranges are aligned on a 16MiB boundary. The following patch calls
>> add_active_range() before the rounding takes place. Can you try it out please?
>
> That's good.  Now I see identical output before/after your patch for
> the generic (DISCONTIG=y) kernel:
>
> On node 0 totalpages: 259873
>  DMA zone: 128931 pages, LIFO batch:7
>  Normal zone: 130942 pages, LIFO batch:7
>

Very very cool. Thanks for all the testing.

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab



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