From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <464AC00E.10704@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 18:25:50 +1000 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Have kswapd keep a minimum order free other than order-0 References: <20070514173218.6787.56089.sendpatchset@skynet.skynet.ie> <20070514173238.6787.57003.sendpatchset@skynet.skynet.ie> <20070514182456.GA9006@skynet.ie> <1179218576.25205.1.camel@rousalka.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Nicolas Mailhot , Christoph Lameter , Andy Whitcroft , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Linux Memory Management List List-ID: Mel Gorman wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2007, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > >> Le lundi 14 mai 2007 a 19:24 +0100, Mel Gorman a ecrit : >> >>> On (14/05/07 11:13), Christoph Lameter didst pronounce: >>> >>>> I think the slub fragment may have to be this way? This calls >>>> raise_kswapd_order on each kmem_cache_create with the order of the >>>> cache >>>> that was created thus insuring that the min_order is correctly. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter >>>> >>> >>> Good plan. Revised patch as follows; >> >> >> Kernel with this patch and the other one survives testing. I'll stop >> heavy testing now and consider the issue closed. >> > > That is good news, thanks for the report. > >> Thanks for looking at my bug report. >> > > Thank you very much for your testing. I know it was a lot to ask to tie > a machine up for a few days. Hmm, so we require higher order pages be kept free even if nothing is using them? That's not very nice :( -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. -- 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