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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:20:38 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
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       Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Lumpy Reclaim V5
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:22:45 +0000 Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> wrote:

> Following this email are three patches which represent the
> current state of the lumpy reclaim patches; collectively lumpy V5.

So where do we stand with this now?    Does it make anything get better?

I (continue to) think that if this is to be truly useful, we need some way
of using it from kswapd to keep a certain minimum number of order-1,
order-2, etc pages in the freelists.