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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/7] mm: compaction: Use synchronous compaction for /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 06:36:43PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> When asynchronous compaction was introduced, the
> /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory handler should have been updated to always
> use synchronous compaction. This did not happen so this patch addresses
> it. The assumption is if a user writes to /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory,
> they are willing for that process to stall.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim


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