Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Apr 2012 13:31:14 -0700 (PDT) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Removal of lumpy reclaim |
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On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:06:21 +0100 > Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> wrote: > > > (cc'ing active people in the thread "[patch 68/92] mm: forbid lumpy-reclaim > > in shrink_active_list()") > > > > In the interest of keeping my fingers from the flames at LSF/MM, I'm > > releasing an RFC for lumpy reclaim removal. > > I grabbed them, thanks.
I do have a concern with this: I was expecting lumpy reclaim to be replaced by compaction, and indeed it is when CONFIG_COMPACTION=y. But when CONFIG_COMPACTION is not set, we're back to 2.6.22 in relying upon blind chance to provide order>0 pages.
Hugh
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