From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Removal of lumpy reclaim
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:40:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F83737B.7040308@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1204091205130.1536@eggly.anvils>
On 04/09/2012 03:18 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> I could see NOMMU being unable to use compaction, but
>
> Yes, COMPACTION depends on MMU.
>
>> chances are lumpy reclaim would be sufficient for that
>> configuration, anyway...
>
> That's an argument for your patch in 3.4-rc, which uses lumpy only
> when !COMPACTION_BUILD. But here we're worrying about Mel's patch,
> which removes the lumpy code completely.
Sorry, that was a typo in my mail.
I wanted to say that I expect lumpy reclaim to NOT be
sufficient for NOMMU anyway, because it cannot reclaim
lumps of memory large enough to fit a new process.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-09 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-28 16:06 Mel Gorman
2012-03-28 16:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: vmscan: Remove " Mel Gorman
2012-04-06 23:52 ` Ying Han
2012-04-10 8:24 ` Mel Gorman
2012-04-10 9:29 ` Mel Gorman
2012-04-10 17:25 ` Ying Han
2012-03-28 16:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: vmscan: Remove reclaim_mode_t Mel Gorman
2012-04-06 19:34 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Removal of lumpy reclaim Andrew Morton
2012-04-06 20:31 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-04-07 3:00 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-04-09 18:10 ` Rik van Riel
2012-04-09 19:18 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-04-09 23:40 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-04-10 8:32 ` Mel Gorman
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