From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:13:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: 2.6.26-rc: nfsd hangs for a few sec In-Reply-To: <20080622013801.GE4692@csn.ul.ie> Message-ID: References: <20080621224135.GD4692@csn.ul.ie> <20080622013801.GE4692@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Alexander Beregalov , kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org, kernel list , linux-mm@kvack.org, Lee Schermerhorn , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Hugh Dickins , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , bfields@fieldses.org, neilb@suse.de, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Mel Gorman wrote: > > Before the change we walk all zones of the zonelist. > > > > Yeah, but the zonelist is for GFP_KERNEL so it should not include the HIGHMEM > zones, right? The key change is that after the patch there are fewer zonelists > than get filtered. But the HIGHMEM zones etc were included before. There was no check for HIGHMEM etc there. The gfpmask was ignored. > I think the effect of that patch is that zones get shrunk that have > nothing to do with the requestors requirements. Right? Right. AFAICT That was the behavior before the change. -- 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