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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] Prevent kswapd dumping excessive amounts of memory in response to high-order allocations V3
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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