From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD7326B008A for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:19:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:19:30 +0000 From: Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Prevent kswapd dumping excessive amounts of memory in response to high-order allocations V3 Message-ID: <20101209111930.GQ5422@csn.ul.ie> References: <1291893500-12342-1-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: <1291893500-12342-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Simon Kirby Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , Shaohua Li , Dave Hansen , Johannes Weiner , Andrew Morton , linux-mm , linux-kernel List-ID: Bah, this should have been PATCH 0/6 of course :( On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 11:18:14AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > There was a minor bug in V2 that led to this release. I'm hopeful it'll > stop kswapd going mad on Simon's machine and might also alleviate some of > the "too much free memory" problem. > > Changelog since V2 > o Add clarifying comments > o Properly check that the zone is balanced for order-0 > o Treat zone->all_unreclaimable properly > > Changelog since V1 > o Take classzone into account > o Ensure that kswapd always balances at order-09 > o Reset classzone and order after reading > o Require a percentage of a node be balanced for high-order allocations, > not just any zone as ZONE_DMA could be balanced when the node in general > is a mess > > -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org