From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754096Ab1JGTcn (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:32:43 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:31615 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751996Ab1JGTcm (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:32:42 -0400 Message-ID: <4E8F53CD.9000609@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:32:29 -0400 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110906 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel Gorman 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 References: <1318000643-27996-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1318000643-27996-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1318000643-27996-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> 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 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 :) -- All rights reversed