From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F096B004D for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:24:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:43:46 +0100 From: Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Do not unconditionally treat zones that fail zone_reclaim() as full Message-ID: <20090608144346.GH15070@csn.ul.ie> References: <1244466090-10711-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1244466090-10711-4-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Christoph Lameter Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , Rik van Riel , yanmin.zhang@intel.com, Wu Fengguang , linuxram@us.ibm.com, linux-mm , LKML List-ID: On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 10:32:12AM -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Ok this patch addresses a bug in zone reclaim introduced by Paul Jackson > in commit 9276b1bc96a132f4068fdee00983c532f43d3a26. Before that commit > zone reclaim would not mark a zone as full if it failed but simply > continue scanning. > Well spotted. I hadn't checked out the history as to when this problem was introduced but it looks like this bug was introduced way back around 2.6.19. > Acked-by: Christoph Lameter > Thanks -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org