Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756752AbZFHOny (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:43:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753499AbZFHOnr (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:43:47 -0400 Received: from gir.skynet.ie ([193.1.99.77]:39336 "EHLO gir.skynet.ie" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752063AbZFHOnq (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:43:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:43:46 +0100 From: Mel Gorman To: Christoph Lameter Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , Rik van Riel , yanmin.zhang@intel.com, Wu Fengguang , linuxram@us.ibm.com, linux-mm , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Do not unconditionally treat zones that fail zone_reclaim() as full Message-ID: <20090608144346.GH15070@csn.ul.ie> References: <1244466090-10711-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1244466090-10711-4-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 932 Lines: 25 On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 10:32:12AM -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Ok this patch addresses a bug in zone reclaim introduced by Paul Jackson > in commit 9276b1bc96a132f4068fdee00983c532f43d3a26. Before that commit > zone reclaim would not mark a zone as full if it failed but simply > continue scanning. > Well spotted. I hadn't checked out the history as to when this problem was introduced but it looks like this bug was introduced way back around 2.6.19. > Acked-by: Christoph Lameter > Thanks -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/