Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752666AbZKMMrh (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:47:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751410AbZKMMrd (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:47:33 -0500 Received: from james.oetiker.ch ([213.144.138.195]:40557 "EHLO james.oetiker.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751337AbZKMMrc (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:47:32 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:47:35 +0100 (CET) From: Tobias Oetiker To: Mel Gorman cc: Andrew Morton , Frans Pop , Jiri Kosina , Sven Geggus , Karol Lewandowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-mm@kvack.org\\\"" , KOSAKI Motohiro , Pekka Enberg , Rik van Riel , Christoph Lameter , Stephan von Krawczynski , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Kernel Testers List Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Reduce GFP_ATOMIC allocation failures, candidate fix V3 In-Reply-To: <1258054235-3208-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Message-ID: References: <1258054235-3208-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1026 Lines: 29 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 -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch tobi@oetiker.ch ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 -- 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/