From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9EE636B002D for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:32:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4E8F53CD.9000609@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:32:29 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: vmscan: Limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations References: <1318000643-27996-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1318000643-27996-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1318000643-27996-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Johannes Weiner , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Josh Boyer , aarcange@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/07/2011 11:17 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > From: Rik van Riel > > When suffering from memory fragmentation due to unfreeable pages, > THP page faults will repeatedly try to compact memory. Due to the > unfreeable pages, compaction fails. I believe Andrew just merged this one :) -- All rights reversed -- 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