Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:

> The zone-based approach does nothing to help jumbo frame allocations. It only
> helps hugepage allocations at runtime and potentially memory hot-remove.

Sounds like the max order based approach is better in many ways. Also 
avoids modifications to vmstat.c/.h ;-)

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