From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754490Ab1JGUSy (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2011 16:18:54 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:35232 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753400Ab1JGUSx (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2011 16:18:53 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 21:18:49 +0100 From: Mel Gorman To: Rik van Riel Cc: Johannes Weiner , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Josh Boyer , aarcange@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: vmscan: Limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations Message-ID: <20111007201849.GC6418@suse.de> References: <1318000643-27996-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1318000643-27996-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <4E8F53CD.9000609@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E8F53CD.9000609@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 03:32:29PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 10/07/2011 11:17 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > >From: Rik van Riel > > > >When suffering from memory fragmentation due to unfreeable pages, > >THP page faults will repeatedly try to compact memory. Due to the > >unfreeable pages, compaction fails. > > I believe Andrew just merged this one :) > It's not the end of the world, this is not going to be the one mail that bursts the inbox at the seams :) -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs