From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36AF06B0047 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:35:14 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] Add /proc trigger for memory compaction In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:00:53 GMT." <1265976059-7459-7-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1265976059-7459-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1265976059-7459-7-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1265999680_4070P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:34:40 -0500 Message-ID: <7691.1265999680@localhost> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Christoph Lameter , Adam Litke , Avi Kivity , David Rientjes , KOSAKI Motohiro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: --==_Exmh_1265999680_4070P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:00:53 GMT, Mel Gorman said: > This patch adds a proc file /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory. When an arbitrary > value is written to the file, all zones are compacted. The expected user > of such a trigger is a job scheduler that prepares the system before the > target application runs. Argh. A global trigger in /proc, and a per-node trigger in /sys too. Can we get by with just one or the other? Should the /proc one live in /sys too? --==_Exmh_1265999680_4070P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFLdZ9AcC3lWbTT17ARAuqMAJ9zE7Mlw+qy2dVG4qMLTgAviVaRlgCfTdBT MFUCALw++Nh/mf9587aU584= =J6gQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1265999680_4070P-- -- 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