From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:46:45 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: migratepage failures on reiserfs In-Reply-To: <20071105102335.GA6272@skynet.ie> Message-ID: References: <1193768824.8904.11.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <20071030135442.5d33c61c@think.oraclecorp.com> <1193781245.8904.28.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <20071030185840.48f5a10b@think.oraclecorp.com> <1193847261.17412.13.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <20071031134006.2ecd520b@think.oraclecorp.com> <1193935137.26106.5.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <20071101115103.62de4b2e@think.oraclecorp.com> <1193940626.26106.13.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <20071105102335.GA6272@skynet.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Badari Pulavarty , Chris Mason , reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm , linux-fsdevel List-ID: On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > The grow_dev_page() pages should be reclaimable even though migration > is not supported for those pages? They were marked movable as it was > useful for lumpy reclaim taking back pages for hugepage allocations and > the like. Would it make sense for memory unremove to attempt migration > first and reclaim second? Note that a page is still movable even if there is no file system method for migration available. In that case the page needs to be cleaned before it can be moved. -- 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