Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:40:43 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Removal of lumpy reclaim |
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On 04/09/2012 03:18 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> I could see NOMMU being unable to use compaction, but > > Yes, COMPACTION depends on MMU. > >> chances are lumpy reclaim would be sufficient for that >> configuration, anyway... > > That's an argument for your patch in 3.4-rc, which uses lumpy only > when !COMPACTION_BUILD. But here we're worrying about Mel's patch, > which removes the lumpy code completely.
Sorry, that was a typo in my mail.
I wanted to say that I expect lumpy reclaim to NOT be sufficient for NOMMU anyway, because it cannot reclaim lumps of memory large enough to fit a new process.
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