[PATCH v5 1/2] memory_hotplug: Free pages as higher order

Arun KS arunks at codeaurora.org
Tue Oct 9 09:54:13 UTC 2018


On 2018-10-09 14:59, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 05-10-18 13:40:05, Arun KS wrote:
>> When free pages are done with higher order, time spend on
>> coalescing pages by buddy allocator can be reduced. With
>> section size of 256MB, hot add latency of a single section
>> shows improvement from 50-60 ms to less than 1 ms, hence
>> improving the hot add latency by 60%. Modify external
>> providers of online callback to align with the change.
> 
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.com>
> 
> Thanks for your patience with all the resubmission.

Hello Michal,

I got the below email few days back. Do I still need to resubmit the 
patch? or is it already on the way to merge?

Regards,
Arun

The patch titled
      Subject: mm/page_alloc.c: memory hotplug: free pages as higher 
order
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
      memory_hotplug-free-pages-as-higher-order.patch

This patch should soon appear at
     
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/memory_hotplug-free-pages-as-higher-order.patch
and later at
     
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/memory_hotplug-free-pages-as-higher-order.patch

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