From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751849AbZHSLsS (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:48:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751550AbZHSLsR (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:48:17 -0400 Received: from smtp3.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.175.254]:38418 "EHLO smtp.ultrahosting.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751494AbZHSLsR (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:48:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:48:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@gentwo.org To: Mel Gorman cc: Linux Memory Management List , Nick Piggin , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Reduce searching in the page allocator fast-path In-Reply-To: <20090819090843.GB24809@csn.ul.ie> Message-ID: References: <1250594162-17322-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <20090818165340.GB13435@csn.ul.ie> <20090819090843.GB24809@csn.ul.ie> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Mel Gorman wrote: > Ok, I don't see this particular patch merged, is it in a merge queue somewhere? The patch depends on Tejun's work to be merged that makes the per cpu allocator available on all platforms. I believe that is in the queue for 2.6.32. > After glancing through, I can see how it might help. I'm going to drop patch > 3 of this set that shuffles data from the PCP to the zone and take a closer > look at those patches. Patch 1 and 2 of this set should still go ahead. Do > you agree? Yes.