Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:19:30 +0000 | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] Prevent kswapd dumping excessive amounts of memory in response to high-order allocations V3 |
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Bah, this should have been PATCH 0/6 of course :(
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 11:18:14AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > There was a minor bug in V2 that led to this release. I'm hopeful it'll > stop kswapd going mad on Simon's machine and might also alleviate some of > the "too much free memory" problem. > > Changelog since V2 > o Add clarifying comments > o Properly check that the zone is balanced for order-0 > o Treat zone->all_unreclaimable properly > > Changelog since V1 > o Take classzone into account > o Ensure that kswapd always balances at order-09 > o Reset classzone and order after reading > o Require a percentage of a node be balanced for high-order allocations, > not just any zone as ZONE_DMA could be balanced when the node in general > is a mess > > <SNIP>
-- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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