From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wr0-f197.google.com (mail-wr0-f197.google.com [209.85.128.197]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD7076B0003 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2018 18:27:40 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wr0-f197.google.com with SMTP id u65so5009892wrc.8 for ; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:27:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org (mail.linuxfoundation.org. [140.211.169.12]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q109si3650855wrb.181.2018.03.01.15.27.39 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:27:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 15:27:37 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch] mm, compaction: drain pcps for zone when kcompactd fails Message-Id: <20180301152737.62b78dcb129339a3261a9820@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Rientjes Cc: Vlastimil Babka , Mel Gorman , Joonsoo Kim , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 03:42:04 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes wrote: > It's possible for buddy pages to become stranded on pcps that, if drained, > could be merged with other buddy pages on the zone's free area to form > large order pages, including up to MAX_ORDER. I grabbed this as-is. Perhaps you could send along a new changelog so that others won't be asking the same questions as Vlastimil? The patch has no reviews or acks at this time... -- 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