Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:26:16 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [patch] mm, page_alloc: wakeup kcompactd even if kswapd cannot free more memory |
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2018, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > Kswapd will not wakeup if per-zone watermarks are not failing or if too > > many previous attempts at background reclaim have failed. > > > > This can be true if there is a lot of free memory available. For high- > > order allocations, kswapd is responsible for waking up kcompactd for > > background compaction. If the zone is now below its watermarks or > not ? >
Good catch, Andrew please let me know if you would like a resend to correct this.
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