Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:53:59 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
       Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
       Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
       David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
       KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
       Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/12] Add /sys trigger for per-node memory compaction
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 06:02:40PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> This patch adds a per-node sysfs file called compact. When the file is
> written to, each zone in that node is compacted. The intention that this
> would be used by something like a job scheduler in a batch system before
> a job starts so that the job can allocate the maximum number of
> hugepages without significant start-up cost.

As you are adding sysfs files, can you please also add documentation for
the file in Documentation/ABI/ ?

thanks,

greg k-h
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