From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx153.postini.com [74.125.245.153]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F13F06B005A for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:52:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <507D5873.6010106@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:52:03 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: compaction: Correct the nr_strict_isolated check for CMA References: <20121016083927.GG29125@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20121016083927.GG29125@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: Andrew Morton , Richard Davies , Shaohua Li , Avi Kivity , Arnd Bergmann , QEMU-devel , KVM , Linux-MM , LKML , Arm Kernel Mailing List On 10/16/2012 04:39 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > Thierry reported that the "iron out" patch for isolate_freepages_block() > had problems due to the strict check being too strict with "mm: compaction: > Iron out isolate_freepages_block() and isolate_freepages_range() -fix1". > It's possible that more pages than necessary are isolated but the check > still fails and I missed that this fix was not picked up before RC1. This > same problem has been identified in 3.7-RC1 by Tony Prisk and should be > addressed by the following patch. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman > Tested-by: Tony Prisk Acked-by: Rik van Riel -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org