From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Permit inode & dentry hash tables to be allocated > MAX_ORDER size
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:04:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040611150419.11281555.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1056.1086952350@redhat.com>
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> (2) Changing MAX_ORDER appears to have a number of effects beyond just
> limiting the maximum size that can be allocated in one go.
Several architectures implement CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER and I haven't
heard of larger MAX_ORDERs causing problems.
Certainly, increasing MAX_ORDER is the simplest solution to the problems
which you identify so we need to substantiate these "number of effects"
much more than this please.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-11 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-11 10:44 David Howells
2004-06-11 10:48 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-11 11:12 ` David Howells
2004-06-11 22:04 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-06-11 23:03 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-06-11 23:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-11 23:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-06-11 23:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-12 12:45 ` Andy Whitcroft
2004-06-13 16:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-11 14:21 ` [PATCH] Permit inode & dentry hash tables to be allocated > MAX_ORDER size [#2] David Howells
2004-06-11 22:01 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-14 10:47 ` [PATCH] Permit inode & dentry hash tables to be allocated > MAX_ORDER size [try #3] David Howells
2004-06-14 11:04 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-14 11:41 ` David Howells
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[not found] ` <262nZ-56Z-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <263jX-5RZ-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-06-12 0:21 ` [PATCH] Permit inode & dentry hash tables to be allocated > MAX_ORDER size Andi Kleen
2004-06-12 6:00 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-06-12 7:36 ` Dave Hansen
2004-06-12 13:11 ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-12 15:00 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-06-15 16:40 ` Dave Hansen
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