From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F3E6B0069 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:00:46 -0500 (EST) Received: by vcbfk26 with SMTP id fk26so583675vcb.14 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:00:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:00:37 +0900 From: Minchan Kim Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] mm: compaction: Use synchronous compaction for /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory Message-ID: <20111122170037.GB15253@barrios-laptop.redhat.com> References: <1321900608-27687-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1321900608-27687-3-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1321900608-27687-3-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Linux-MM , Andrea Arcangeli , Jan Kara , Andy Isaacson , Johannes Weiner , Rik van Riel , Nai Xia , LKML On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 06:36:43PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > When asynchronous compaction was introduced, the > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory handler should have been updated to always > use synchronous compaction. This did not happen so this patch addresses > it. The assumption is if a user writes to /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory, > they are willing for that process to stall. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman > Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- 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 internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org