Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754822Ab2HGN0Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2012 09:26:24 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:58910 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753415Ab2HGN0W (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2012 09:26:22 -0400 Message-ID: <50211778.3030709@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:26:16 -0400 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel Gorman CC: Linux-MM , Minchan Kim , Jim Schutt , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm: kswapd: Continue reclaiming for reclaim/compaction if the minimum number of pages have not been reclaimed References: <1344342677-5845-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <1344342677-5845-4-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1344342677-5845-4-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: 739 Lines: 18 On 08/07/2012 08:31 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > When direct reclaim is running reclaim/compaction, there is a minimum > number of pages it reclaims. As it must be under the low watermark to be > in direct reclaim it has also woken kswapd to do some work. This patch > has kswapd use the same logic as direct reclaim to reclaim a minimum > number of pages so compaction can run later. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-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/