From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>,
Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Do not stall in synchronous compaction for THP allocations
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:37:32 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1111101536330.2194@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111110151211.523fa185.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > This patch once again prevents sync migration for transparent
> > hugepage allocations as it is preferable to fail a THP allocation
> > than stall.
>
> Who said? ;) Presumably some people would prefer to get lots of
> huge pages for their 1000-hour compute job, and waiting a bit to get
> those pages is acceptable.
>
Indeed. It seems like the behavior would better be controlled with
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag which is set aside specifically
to control defragmentation for transparent hugepages and for that
synchronous compaction should certainly apply.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-10 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-10 10:06 Mel Gorman
2011-11-10 10:38 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-10 10:51 ` Alan Cox
2011-11-10 12:06 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-10 14:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-10 14:22 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-10 15:12 ` Minchan Kim
2011-11-10 16:13 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-10 16:30 ` Minchan Kim
2011-11-10 16:48 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-10 23:12 ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-10 23:37 ` David Rientjes [this message]
2011-11-11 10:14 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-11 10:39 ` David Rientjes
2011-11-11 11:17 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-11 14:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-14 23:44 ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-15 13:25 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-15 21:07 ` David Rientjes
2011-11-15 23:48 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-16 0:07 ` David Rientjes
2011-11-16 4:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-16 13:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-16 15:07 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-18 17:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-16 14:14 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-11 10:01 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-15 0:03 ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-15 2:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-15 2:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-15 15:01 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-15 15:00 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-15 13:07 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-15 15:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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