This is V6 of the zone-based anti-fragmentation patches. These patches require
the architecture-independent zone-sizing patches posted under the subject
"[PATCH 0/7] Sizing zones and holes in an architecture independent manner V5"
at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114649066331962&w=2 .
In this version, all the zone sizing is done in one place rather
than per-architecture like older versions. Any architecture that uses
add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes() to initialise it's zones
can trivially support ZONE_EASYRCLM by parsing a kernelcore= command-line
parameter and calling set_required_kernelcore().
As these patches require the zone-sizing merged first, I am not looking to
merge these now. I just wanted to show that zone-based anti-fragmentation is
a bit nicer looking when the zone sizing is not architecture-specific. Some
of this patch is a bit rough and ready :)
Changelog since v5
o Rebase on top of arch-independent zone and hole sizing code
o Calculate ZONE_EASYRCLM boundaries in an arch-independent manner
Changelog since v4
o Move x86_64 from one patch to another
o Fix for oops bug on ppc64
Changelog since v3
o Minor bugs
o ppc64 can specify kernelcore
o Ability to disable use of ZONE_EASYRCLM at boot time
o HugeTLB uses ZONE_EASYRCLM
o Add drain-percpu caches for testing
o boot-parameter documentation added
This is a zone-based approach to anti-fragmentation. This is posted in light
of the discussions related to the list-based (sometimes dubbed as sub-zones)
approach where the prevailing opinion was that zones were the answer. The
patches have been boot-tested based on linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1 with x86,
x86_64, ppc64 in a variety of different configurations. It was boot-tested
on ia64 where it blew up before the serial console was initialised. Lacking
early_printk, I have not figured out what is going wrong there yet. If
anyone has physical access to an IA64 that can send me a bug report, I'd
appreciate it.
Ordinarily, I would include performance regressions, but I'm not looking to
merge this time.
The diffstat for the all the patches is;
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 16 ++
arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 12 ++
arch/i386/kernel/srat.c | 2
arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c | 5
arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c | 9 +
arch/ppc/mm/init.c | 9 +
arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c | 6 +
arch/x86_64/mm/init.c | 2
fs/compat.c | 2
fs/exec.c | 2
fs/inode.c | 11 ++
fs/ntfs/malloc.h | 3
include/asm-i386/page.h | 3
include/linux/gfp.h | 3
include/linux/highmem.h | 2
include/linux/mm.h | 1
include/linux/mmzone.h | 12 +-
mm/hugetlb.c | 4
mm/mem_init.c | 198 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
mm/memory.c | 4
mm/page_alloc.c | 10 +
mm/shmem.c | 4
mm/swap_state.c | 2
23 files changed, 288 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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