On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
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.
I agree but too many people are not pleased with the main allocator path being affected and wanted to see zones, so here we are :)
Also avoids modifications to vmstat.c/.h ;-)
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