From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142FF8D0039 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 00:58:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 21:57:59 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove compaction from kswapd Message-Id: <20110301215759.f723c9bc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20110302055221.GD23911@random.random> References: <20110228222138.GP22700@random.random> <20110301223954.GI19057@random.random> <20110301164143.e44e5699.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20110302043856.GB23911@random.random> <20110301205324.f0daaf86.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20110302055221.GD23911@random.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Minchan Kim , Mel Gorman , Johannes Weiner , linux-mm@kvack.org On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 06:52:21 +0100 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > These are the other two patches that are needed for both workloads to > be better than before. > > mm-compaction-minimise-the-time-irqs-are-disabled-while-isolating-pages-for-migration > mm-compaction-minimise-the-time-irqs-are-disabled-while-isolating-free-pages I have those queued for 2.6.39 - they didn't seem terribly critical and no mention of NMI watchdog timeouts was made. Guys, this stuff matters :( Should both go into 2.6.38? If so, why? -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org