Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/10] mm: vmscan: Flatten kswapd priority loop | Date | Sun, 17 Mar 2013 07:36:22 -0700 |
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Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> writes: > > To avoid infinite looping for high-order allocation requests kswapd will > not reclaim for high-order allocations when it has reclaimed at least > twice the number of pages as the allocation request.
Will this make higher order allocations fail earlier? Or does compaction still kick in early enough.
I understand the motivation.
-Andi
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