Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 02 Oct 2005 14:31:09 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 (Oops, possibly Netfilter related?) |
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--Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote (on Sunday, October 02, 2005 10:13:19 -0700):
> Martin, responding to Andrew: >> > I've dropped that patch. Joel Schopp is working on Mel Gorman's patches >> > which address fragmentation at this level. If that code gets there then we >> > can take another look at >> > mm-try-to-allocate-higher-order-pages-in-rmqueue_bulk.patch. >> >> Me no understand. We're going to deliberately cause fragmentation in order >> to defragment it again later ??? > > I thought that the patches of Mel Gorman and Joel Schopp were reducing > fragmentation, not causing it.
They were. but mm-try-to-allocate-higher-order-pages-in-rmqueue_bulk seems to be going in the opposite direction.
M.
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