Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm: slub: Default slub_max_order to 0

Christoph Lameter
2011-05-12T18:00:18Z

On Thu, 12 May 2011, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> order 1 should work better, because it's less likely we end up here
> (which leaves RECLAIM_MODE_LUMPYRECLAIM on and then see what happens
> at the top of page_check_references())
>
> else if (sc->order && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)

Why is this DEF_PRIORITY - 2? Shouldnt it be DEF_PRIORITY? An accomodation
for SLAB order 1 allocs?

May I assume that the case of order 2 and 3 allocs in that case was not
very well tested after the changes to introduce compaction since people
were focusing on RHEL testing?