From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Prevent kswapd dumping excessive amounts of memory in response to high-order allocations V3
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:19:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101209111930.GQ5422@csn.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291893500-12342-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie>
Bah, this should have been PATCH 0/6 of course :(
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 11:18:14AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> There was a minor bug in V2 that led to this release. I'm hopeful it'll
> stop kswapd going mad on Simon's machine and might also alleviate some of
> the "too much free memory" problem.
>
> Changelog since V2
> o Add clarifying comments
> o Properly check that the zone is balanced for order-0
> o Treat zone->all_unreclaimable properly
>
> Changelog since V1
> o Take classzone into account
> o Ensure that kswapd always balances at order-09
> o Reset classzone and order after reading
> o Require a percentage of a node be balanced for high-order allocations,
> not just any zone as ZONE_DMA could be balanced when the node in general
> is a mess
>
> <SNIP>
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-09 11:18 [PATCH 0/5] Prevent kswapd dumping excessive amounts of memory in response to high-order allocations V3 Mel Gorman
2010-12-09 11:18 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm: kswapd: Stop high-order balancing when any suitable zone is balanced Mel Gorman
2010-12-09 15:21 ` Minchan Kim
2010-12-10 1:06 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-12-13 16:54 ` Eric B Munson
2010-12-09 11:18 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm: kswapd: Keep kswapd awake for high-order allocations until a percentage of the node " Mel Gorman
2010-12-09 15:42 ` Minchan Kim
2010-12-10 10:19 ` Mel Gorman
2010-12-10 1:16 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-12-10 10:25 ` Mel Gorman
2010-12-13 17:00 ` Eric B Munson
2010-12-09 11:18 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm: kswapd: Use the order that kswapd was reclaiming at for sleeping_prematurely() Mel Gorman
2010-12-10 1:16 ` Minchan Kim
2010-12-10 10:36 ` Mel Gorman
2010-12-10 1:18 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-12-09 11:18 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm: kswapd: Reset kswapd_max_order and classzone_idx after reading Mel Gorman
2010-12-09 15:59 ` Minchan Kim
2010-12-09 16:03 ` Minchan Kim
2010-12-10 10:42 ` Mel Gorman
2010-12-10 1:19 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-12-09 11:18 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm: kswapd: Treat zone->all_unreclaimable in sleeping_prematurely similar to balance_pgdat() Mel Gorman
2010-12-10 1:23 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-12-10 10:55 ` Mel Gorman
2010-12-12 23:58 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-12-09 11:18 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm: kswapd: Use the classzone idx that kswapd was using for sleeping_prematurely() Mel Gorman
2010-12-10 2:38 ` Minchan Kim
2010-12-09 11:19 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
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