Re: [patch 09/19] (NEW) more aggressively use lumpy reclaim

Christoph Lameter
2008-01-08T22:30:30Z

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Rik van Riel wrote:

> If normal pageout does not result in contiguous free pages for
> kernel stacks, fall back to lumpy reclaim instead of failing fork
> or doing excessive pageout IO.

Good. Ccing Mel. This is going to help higher order pages which is useful
for a couple of other projects.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>