From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: P?draig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: vmscan: Do not apply pressure to slab if we are not applying pressure to zone
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:59:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110624135937.GR9396@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308922998-15529-3-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de>
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 02:43:16PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> During allocator-intensive workloads, kswapd will be woken frequently
> causing free memory to oscillate between the high and min watermark.
> This is expected behaviour.
>
Bah, I accidentally exported a branch with a build error in this
patch. Will resend shortly.
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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-24 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-24 13:43 [PATCH 0/4] Stop kswapd consuming 100% CPU when highest zone is small Mel Gorman
2011-06-24 13:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm: vmscan: Correct check for kswapd sleeping in sleeping_prematurely Mel Gorman
2011-06-24 13:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm: vmscan: Do not apply pressure to slab if we are not applying pressure to zone Mel Gorman
2011-06-24 13:59 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2011-06-24 13:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm: vmscan: Evaluate the watermarks against the correct classzone Mel Gorman
2011-06-24 13:43 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm: vmscan: Only read new_classzone_idx from pgdat when reclaiming successfully Mel Gorman
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2011-06-24 14:44 [PATCH 0/4] Stop kswapd consuming 100% CPU when highest zone is small Mel Gorman
2011-06-24 14:44 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm: vmscan: Do not apply pressure to slab if we are not applying pressure to zone Mel Gorman
2011-06-25 21:40 ` Rik van Riel
2011-06-28 23:38 ` Minchan Kim
2011-06-30 2:37 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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