From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 069666B004D for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:13:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (smtp.ultrahosting.com [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ultrahosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E35582C4E8 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:47:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.175.254]) by localhost (smtp.ultrahosting.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id C8kqgFUhdkNy for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:47:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from gentwo.org (unknown [74.213.171.31]) by smtp.ultrahosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA9B382C4E9 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:47:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:32:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Do not unconditionally treat zones that fail zone_reclaim() as full In-Reply-To: <1244466090-10711-4-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Message-ID: References: <1244466090-10711-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1244466090-10711-4-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Mel Gorman Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , Rik van Riel , yanmin.zhang@intel.com, Wu Fengguang , linuxram@us.ibm.com, linux-mm , LKML List-ID: Ok this patch addresses a bug in zone reclaim introduced by Paul Jackson in commit 9276b1bc96a132f4068fdee00983c532f43d3a26. Before that commit zone reclaim would not mark a zone as full if it failed but simply continue scanning. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter -- 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