From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758955Ab1BPMM0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:12:26 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:58449 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755267Ab1BPMMX (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:12:23 -0500 Message-ID: <4D5BBF88.6030103@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:14:00 -0500 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel Gorman CC: Andrew Morton , Johannes Weiner , Andrea Arcangeli , Michal Hocko , Kent Overstreet , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: Stop reclaim/compaction earlier due to insufficient progress if !__GFP_REPEAT References: <20110209154606.GJ27110@cmpxchg.org> <20110209164656.GA1063@csn.ul.ie> <20110209182846.GN3347@random.random> <20110210102109.GB17873@csn.ul.ie> <20110210124838.GU3347@random.random> <20110210133323.GH17873@csn.ul.ie> <20110210141447.GW3347@random.random> <20110210145813.GK17873@csn.ul.ie> <20110216095048.GA4473@csn.ul.ie> In-Reply-To: <20110216095048.GA4473@csn.ul.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/16/2011 04:50 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > This patch will stop reclaim/compaction if no pages were reclaimed in the > last SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages that were considered. For allocations such as > hugetlbfs that use GFP_REPEAT and have fewer fallback options, the full LRU > list may still be scanned. > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Rik van Riel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC6B18D0039 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:11:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4D5BBF88.6030103@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:14:00 -0500 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: Stop reclaim/compaction earlier due to insufficient progress if !__GFP_REPEAT References: <20110209154606.GJ27110@cmpxchg.org> <20110209164656.GA1063@csn.ul.ie> <20110209182846.GN3347@random.random> <20110210102109.GB17873@csn.ul.ie> <20110210124838.GU3347@random.random> <20110210133323.GH17873@csn.ul.ie> <20110210141447.GW3347@random.random> <20110210145813.GK17873@csn.ul.ie> <20110216095048.GA4473@csn.ul.ie> In-Reply-To: <20110216095048.GA4473@csn.ul.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrew Morton , Johannes Weiner , Andrea Arcangeli , Michal Hocko , Kent Overstreet , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/16/2011 04:50 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > This patch will stop reclaim/compaction if no pages were reclaimed in the > last SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages that were considered. For allocations such as > hugetlbfs that use GFP_REPEAT and have fewer fallback options, the full LRU > list may still be scanned. > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Rik van Riel -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org