From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm: slub: Default slub_max_order to 0
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 13:46:48 -0500 (CDT)
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Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
	Raghavendra D Prabhu <raghu.prabhu13@gmail.com>,
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	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
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To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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On Thu, 12 May 2011, James Bottomley wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 18:55 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 10:43 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > However, since you admit even you see problems, let's concentrate on
> > > fixing them rather than recriminations?
> >
> > Yes, please. So does dropping max_order to 1 help?
> > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER is set to 3 in 2.6.39-rc7.
>
> Just booting with max_slab_order=1 (and none of the other patches
> applied) I can still get the machine to go into kswapd at 99%, so it
> doesn't seem to make much of a difference.

slub_max_order=1 right? Not max_slab_order.