From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:31:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E809ABB.2020807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110926150212.GB11313@suse.de>
On 09/26/2011 11:02 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> I don't have a proper patch prepared but I think it is a mistake for
> reclaim and compaction to be using different logic when deciding
> if action should be taken. Compaction uses compaction_suitable()
> and compaction_deferred() to decide whether it should compact or not
> and reclaim/compaction should share the same logic. I don't have a
> proper patch but the check would look something like;
Mel and I just hashed out the details on IRC.
I'm building a test kernel with the new logic now and will
post an updated patch if everything works as expected.
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2011-09-26 13:55 Rik van Riel
2011-09-26 15:02 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-26 15:31 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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