[PATCHv19 00/15] Contiguous Memory Allocator

Michal Nazarewicz mina86 at mina86.com
Thu Jan 26 10:38:28 EST 2012


On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:31:40 +0100, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> I haven't followed the last two releases so closely. It seems that
> in v17 the movable pages with pending i/o was still a major problem
> but in v18 you added a solution. Is that right? What is still left
> to be done here then?

In the current version, when allocation fails because of a page with
pending I/O, CMA automatically tries allocation in another region.

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