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    SubjectRe: [RFC 1/2] cma: remove __reclaim_pages
    On 08/14/2012 04:57 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
    > Now cma reclaims too many pages by __reclaim_pages which says
    > following as
    >
    > * Reclaim enough pages to make sure that contiguous allocation
    > * will not starve the system.
    >
    > Starve? What does it starve the system? The function which allocate
    > free page for migration target would wake up kswapd and do direct reclaim
    > if needed during migration so system doesn't starve.
    >
    > Let remove __reclaim_pages and related function and fields.

    Fair enough.

    > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

    Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>


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