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 SMTP id EFB2B8D0040 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:35:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4D91FC2D.4090602@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:35:09 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [LSF][MM] page allocation & direct reclaim latency References: <1301373398.2590.20.camel@mulgrave.site> In-Reply-To: <1301373398.2590.20.camel@mulgrave.site> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: lsf@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-mm On 03/29/2011 12:36 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > Hi All, > > Since LSF is less than a week away, the programme committee put together > a just in time preliminary agenda for LSF. As you can see there is > still plenty of empty space, which you can make suggestions There have been a few patches upstream by people for who page allocation latency is a concern. It may be worthwhile to have a short discussion on what we can do to keep page allocation (and direct reclaim?) latencies down to a minimum, reducing the slowdown that direct reclaim introduces on some workloads. -- 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