From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx103.postini.com [74.125.245.103]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B71F56B00B2 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:04:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:03:56 -0200 From: Rafael Aquini Subject: Re: [patch] mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility fix Message-ID: <20121128000355.GA7401@t510.redhat.com> References: <50a6581a.V3MmP/x4DXU9jUhJ%fengguang.wu@intel.com> <20121116201035.GA18145@t510.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Rientjes Cc: kbuild test robot , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Michal Hocko On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 03:50:07PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote: > On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, David Rientjes wrote: > > > > This is already addressed at v12 revision which is on mmtom queue already. > > > > > > > Ah, it was merged yesterday but it depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE rather > > than COMPACTION. Why? Surely thp is not the only thing that benefits > > from keeping memory defragmented for high-order allocs. > > > > Ping on this? The direct question was why depend on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE > rather than COMPACTION, i.e. why do only order-9 allocations benefit from > defragmented memory rather than all high order allocations? > > Thanks. Ugh, I missed this one on the mail pile. That's a nice feature for all system, indeed. I'd say you're 100% right. Would you mind in submitting the change? Thanks David, and sorry sorry for the late reply. Rafael -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org