From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Removal of lumpy reclaim
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:10:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8325FB.80409@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1204061316580.3057@eggly.anvils>
On 04/06/2012 04:31 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:06:21 +0100
>> Mel Gorman<mgorman@suse.de> wrote:
>>
>>> (cc'ing active people in the thread "[patch 68/92] mm: forbid lumpy-reclaim
>>> in shrink_active_list()")
>>>
>>> In the interest of keeping my fingers from the flames at LSF/MM, I'm
>>> releasing an RFC for lumpy reclaim removal.
>>
>> I grabbed them, thanks.
>
> I do have a concern with this: I was expecting lumpy reclaim to be
> replaced by compaction, and indeed it is when CONFIG_COMPACTION=y.
> But when CONFIG_COMPACTION is not set, we're back to 2.6.22 in
> relying upon blind chance to provide order>0 pages.
Is this an issue for any architecture?
I could see NOMMU being unable to use compaction, but
chances are lumpy reclaim would be sufficient for that
configuration, anyway...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-09 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-28 16:06 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Removal of lumpy reclaim Mel Gorman
2012-03-28 16:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: vmscan: Remove " Mel Gorman
2012-04-06 23:52 ` Ying Han
2012-04-10 8:24 ` Mel Gorman
2012-04-10 9:29 ` Mel Gorman
2012-04-10 17:25 ` Ying Han
2012-03-28 16:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: vmscan: Remove reclaim_mode_t Mel Gorman
2012-04-06 19:34 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Removal of lumpy reclaim Andrew Morton
2012-04-06 20:31 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-04-07 3:00 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-04-09 18:10 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-04-09 19:18 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-04-09 23:40 ` Rik van Riel
2012-04-10 8:32 ` Mel Gorman
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