Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:47:35 +0100 (CET) | From | Tobias Oetiker <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] Reduce GFP_ATOMIC allocation failures, candidate fix V3 |
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Hi Mel,
Yesterday Mel Gorman wrote:
> Sorry for the long delay in posting another version. Testing is extremely > time-consuming and I wasn't getting to work on this as much as I'd have liked. > > Changelog since V2 > o Dropped the kswapd-quickly-notice-high-order patch. In more detailed > testing, it made latencies even worse as kswapd slept more on high-order > congestion causing order-0 direct reclaims. > o Added changes to how congestion_wait() works > o Added a number of new patches altering the behaviour of reclaim
so is there anything promissing for the order 5 allocation problems in this set?
cheers tobi
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