From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Removal of lumpy reclaim
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 13:31:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1204061316580.3057@eggly.anvils> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120406123439.d2ba8920.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:06:21 +0100
> Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > (cc'ing active people in the thread "[patch 68/92] mm: forbid lumpy-reclaim
> > in shrink_active_list()")
> >
> > In the interest of keeping my fingers from the flames at LSF/MM, I'm
> > releasing an RFC for lumpy reclaim removal.
>
> I grabbed them, thanks.
I do have a concern with this: I was expecting lumpy reclaim to be
replaced by compaction, and indeed it is when CONFIG_COMPACTION=y.
But when CONFIG_COMPACTION is not set, we're back to 2.6.22 in
relying upon blind chance to provide order>0 pages.
Hugh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-06 20:31 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 [this message]
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
2012-04-10 8:32 ` Mel Gorman
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