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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/8] Use memory compaction instead of lumpy reclaim during high-order allocations
On 11/17/2010 06:46 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:22:41 +0000
> Mel Gorman<mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:

>> I'm hoping that this series also removes the
>> necessity for the "delete lumpy reclaim" patch from the THP tree.
>
> Now I'm sad. I read all that and was thinking "oh goody, we get to
> delete something for once". But no :(
>
> If you can get this stuff to work nicely, why can't we remove lumpy
> reclaim?

I seem to remember there being some resistance against
removing lumpy reclaim, but I do not remember from
where or why.

IMHO some code deletion would be nice :)

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