Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:40:30 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>,
        Clemens Ladisch <cladisch@googlemail.com>,
        alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] new source of MIDI playback slow-down identified -
 5a03b051ed87e72b959f32a86054e1142ac4cf55 thp: use compaction in kswapd for
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On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 05:01:17PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> I regret that yet more patches are being blasted around but I hope the included
> figures will convince you to run yet-another-test. I don't know how you are
> measuring how long IRQs are being disabled and when it's a problem but it's
> what I'm more interested in right now than the kswapd CPU usage which I'm
> still in the process of gathering data to analyse.

Arthur, I suggest to apply this patch before any of my patches (just
like the kswapd-high-wmark) before testing my patches. It's orthogonal
so it can be applied at the same time.

Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>

Thanks,
Andrea
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