Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 4 authors, 2011-10-12

Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: vmscan: Limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations

From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Date: 2011-10-07 20:18:54
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On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 03:32:29PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
On 10/07/2011 11:17 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
quoted
From: Rik van Riel<redacted>

When suffering from memory fragmentation due to unfreeable pages,
THP page faults will repeatedly try to compact memory.  Due to the
unfreeable pages, compaction fails.
I believe Andrew just merged this one :)
It's not the end of the world, this is not going to be the one mail that
bursts the inbox at the seams :)

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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