Re: -mm merge plans -- anti-fragmentation

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Jul 13 2007 - 12:58:20 EST


On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

> I would like to see ZONE_MOVABLE and lumpy considered for 2.6.23.

Agree. ZONE_MOVABLE is a way to guarantee a reclaimable memory area which
is beneficial for the antifrag approach (and it will help to get more
reliable allocations of higher order pages in SLUB if one chooses to
use these...).
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