Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 08/10] mm: cma: Contiguous Memory Allocatoradded

[Philip Balister]

On 06/15/2011 12:37 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 June 2011 09:11:39 Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> > I see your concerns, but I really wonder how to determine the properties
> > of the global/default cma pool. You definitely don't want to give all
> > available memory o CMA, because it will have negative impact on kernel
> > operation (kernel really needs to allocate unmovable pages from time to
> > time).
>
> Exactly. This is a hard problem, so I would prefer to see a solution for
> coming up with reasonable defaults.

Is this a situation where passing the information from device tree might 
help? I know this does not help short term, but I am trying to 
understand the sorts of problems device tree can help solve.

Philip

> > The only solution I see now is to provide Kconfig entry to determine
> > the size of the global CMA pool, but this still have some issues,
> > especially for multi-board kernels (each board probably will have
> > different amount of RAM and different memory-consuming devices
> > available). It looks that each board startup code still might need to
> > tweak the size of CMA pool. I can add a kernel command line option for
> > it, but such solution also will not solve all the cases (afair there
> > was a discussion about kernel command line parameters for memory
> > configuration and the conclusion was that it should be avoided).
>
> The command line option can be a last resort if the heuristics fail,
> but it's not much better than a fixed Kconfig setting.
>
> How about a Kconfig option that defines the percentage of memory
> to set aside for contiguous allocations?
>
> 	Arnd
>
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