Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/15][Sorted-buddy] mm: Memory Power Management

2013-05-28 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 05/29/2013 01:38 AM, Phillip Susi wrote: > > On 4/19/2013 3:12 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> But going further, as I had mentioned in my TODO list, we can be >> smarter than this while doing compaction to evacuate memory regions >> - we can choose to migrate only the active pages, and leave th

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/15][Sorted-buddy] mm: Memory Power Management

2013-05-28 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/19/2013 3:12 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > But going further, as I had mentioned in my TODO list, we can be > smarter than this while doing compaction to evacuate memory regions > - we can choose to migrate only the active pages, and leave the > i

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/15][Sorted-buddy] mm: Memory Power Management

2013-04-25 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 04/18/2013 10:40 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 04/09/2013 02:45 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> 2. Performance overhead is expected to be low: Since we retain the simplicity >>of the algorithm in the page allocation path, page allocation can >>potentially remain as fast as it would be witho

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/15][Sorted-buddy] mm: Memory Power Management

2013-04-19 Thread Srinivas Pandruvada
On 04/19/2013 12:12 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: On 04/19/2013 11:04 AM, Simon Jeons wrote: Hi Srivatsa, On 04/10/2013 05:45 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: [I know, this cover letter is a little too long, but I wanted to clearly explain the overall goals and the high-level design of this patchset i

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/15][Sorted-buddy] mm: Memory Power Management

2013-04-19 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 04/18/2013 08:43 PM, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote: > On 04/18/2013 02:54 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> On 04/17/2013 10:23 PM, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote: >>> On 04/09/2013 02:45 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: [I know, this cover letter is a little too long, but I wanted to clearly expl

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/15][Sorted-buddy] mm: Memory Power Management

2013-04-19 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 04/19/2013 11:04 AM, Simon Jeons wrote: > Hi Srivatsa, > On 04/10/2013 05:45 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> [I know, this cover letter is a little too long, but I wanted to clearly >> explain the overall goals and the high-level design of this patchset in >> detail. I hope this helps more than i

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/15][Sorted-buddy] mm: Memory Power Management

2013-04-18 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 04/18/2013 10:40 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 04/09/2013 02:45 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> 2. Performance overhead is expected to be low: Since we retain the simplicity >>of the algorithm in the page allocation path, page allocation can >>potentially remain as fast as it would be witho

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/15][Sorted-buddy] mm: Memory Power Management

2013-04-18 Thread Simon Jeons
Hi Srivatsa, On 04/10/2013 05:45 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: [I know, this cover letter is a little too long, but I wanted to clearly explain the overall goals and the high-level design of this patchset in detail. I hope this helps more than it annoys, and makes it easier for reviewers to relate

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/15][Sorted-buddy] mm: Memory Power Management

2013-04-18 Thread Dave Hansen
On 04/09/2013 02:45 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > 2. Performance overhead is expected to be low: Since we retain the simplicity >of the algorithm in the page allocation path, page allocation can >potentially remain as fast as it would be without memory regions. The >overhead is pushed t

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/15][Sorted-buddy] mm: Memory Power Management

2013-04-18 Thread Srinivas Pandruvada
On 04/18/2013 02:54 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: On 04/17/2013 10:23 PM, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote: On 04/09/2013 02:45 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: [I know, this cover letter is a little too long, but I wanted to clearly explain the overall goals and the high-level design of this patchset in det

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/15][Sorted-buddy] mm: Memory Power Management

2013-04-18 Thread Srivatsa S. Bhat
On 04/17/2013 10:23 PM, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote: > On 04/09/2013 02:45 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: >> [I know, this cover letter is a little too long, but I wanted to clearly >> explain the overall goals and the high-level design of this patchset in >> detail. I hope this helps more than it annoy

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/15][Sorted-buddy] mm: Memory Power Management

2013-04-17 Thread Srinivas Pandruvada
On 04/09/2013 02:45 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: [I know, this cover letter is a little too long, but I wanted to clearly explain the overall goals and the high-level design of this patchset in detail. I hope this helps more than it annoys, and makes it easier for reviewers to relate to the backgr