On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 07:51 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 07:36 -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > > >> Can we quit coming up with specialist hacks for hotplug, and try to solve
> > > >> the generic problem please? hotplug is NOT the only issue here. Fragmentation
> > > >> in general is.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > Not really it isn't. There have been a few cases (e1000 being the main
> > > > one, and is fixed upstream) where fragmentation in general is a problem.
> > > > But mostly it is not.
> > >
> > > Sigh. OK, tell me how you're going to fix kernel stacks > 4K please.
> >
> > with CONFIG_4KSTACKS :)
>
> 2-page allocations are _not_ a problem.
agreed for the general case. There are some corner cases that you can
trigger deliberate in an artifical setting with lots of java threads
(esp on x86 on a 32Gb box; the lowmem zone works as a lever here leading
to "hyperfragmentation"; otoh on x86 you can do 4k stacks and it's gone
mostly)
> Fragmentation means that it gets _exponentially_ more unlikely that you
> can allocate big contiguous areas. But contiguous areas of order 1 are
> very very likely indeed. It's only the _big_ areas that aren't going to
> happen.
yup. only possible exception is the leveraged scenario .. thank god for
64 bit x86-64.
(and in the leveraged scenario I don't think active defragmentation will
buy you much over the long term at all)
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