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SubjectRe: 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 (Oops, possibly Netfilter related?)


--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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