From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756525AbZFISMY (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:12:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755210AbZFISMO (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:12:14 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:44160 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754431AbZFISMN (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:12:13 -0400 Message-ID: <4A2EA5D9.6050602@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:11:37 -0400 From: Rik van Riel Organization: Red Hat, Inc User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080915) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel Gorman CC: KOSAKI Motohiro , Christoph Lameter , yanmin.zhang@intel.com, Wu Fengguang , linuxram@us.ibm.com, linux-mm , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] Do not unconditionally treat zones that fail zone_reclaim() as full References: <1244566904-31470-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1244566904-31470-3-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> In-Reply-To: <1244566904-31470-3-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mel Gorman wrote: > There is a side-effect to this patch. Currently, if zone_reclaim() > successfully reclaimed SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, an allocation attempt would > go ahead. With this patch applied, zone watermarks are rechecked after > zone_reclaim() does some work. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman > Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed.