From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755861Ab1EWPqr (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2011 11:46:47 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com ([209.85.216.181]:35919 "EHLO mail-qy0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754611Ab1EWPqq (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2011 11:46:46 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=E9aMDfI+/IyMWC/AnetVUnf7yLBsZWc4kTqBLcE2Yp5wX6Z/lirka+e0Hh2K1f1NX2 SJXKfS1V0iPV9mKIKvthYN8HKIqq/l6NpU8h1qyJbnMKup7Pa+iZZ5L7eR5U0XlwIi3q uRd0Gmv21o18WvZShgv7M2uYETUUvwXbMWJGI= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1306144435-2516-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> References: <1306144435-2516-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1306144435-2516-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 00:46:44 +0900 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: vmscan: Correct use of pgdat_balanced in sleeping_prematurely From: Minchan Kim To: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrew Morton , James Bottomley , Colin King , Raghavendra D Prabhu , Jan Kara , Chris Mason , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , Rik van Riel , Johannes Weiner , linux-fsdevel , linux-mm , linux-kernel , linux-ext4 , stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Mel Gorman wrote: > From: Johannes Weiner > > Johannes Weiner poined out that the logic in commit [1741c877: mm: > kswapd: keep kswapd awake for high-order allocations until a percentage > of the node is balanced] is backwards. Instead of allowing kswapd to go > to sleep when balancing for high order allocations, it keeps it kswapd > running uselessly. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman > Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim