From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81ABE6B002D for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:46:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4ECAC6C0.3090202@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:46:40 -0500 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm: compaction: Use synchronous compaction for /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory References: <1321635524-8586-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1321635524-8586-3-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1321635524-8586-3-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Linux-MM , Andrea Arcangeli , Minchan Kim , Jan Kara , Andy Isaacson , Johannes Weiner , LKML On 11/18/2011 11:58 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > When asynchronous compaction was introduced, the > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory handler should have been updated to always > use synchronous compaction. This did not happen so this patch addresses > it. The assumption is if a user writes to /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory, > they are willing for that process to stall. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel -- 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