Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755666Ab1EPOb2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2011 10:31:28 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:22906 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755562Ab1EPOb0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2011 10:31:26 -0400 Message-ID: <4DD134FC.3000608@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 10:30:20 -0400 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110307 Fedora/3.1.9-0.38.b3pre.fc13 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel Gorman CC: Andrew Morton , James Bottomley , Colin King , Raghavendra D Prabhu , Jan Kara , Chris Mason , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , Johannes Weiner , linux-fsdevel , linux-mm , linux-kernel , linux-ext4 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm: vmscan: Correct use of pgdat_balanced in sleeping_prematurely References: <1305295404-12129-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1305295404-12129-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1305295404-12129-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 799 Lines: 19 On 05/13/2011 10:03 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > Johannes Weiner poined out that the logic in commit [1741c877: mm: > kswapd: keep kswapd awake for high-order allocations until a percentage > of the node is balanced] is backwards. Instead of allowing kswapd to go > to sleep when balancing for high order allocations, it keeps it kswapd > running uselessly. > > From-but-was-not-signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner > Will-sign-off-after-Johannes: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed -- 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/