Re: [PATCH 0/5] Reduce GFP_ATOMIC allocation failures, candidatefix V3

From: Tobias Oetiker
Date: Fri Nov 13 2009 - 07:47:48 EST


Hi Mel,

Yesterday Mel Gorman wrote:

> Sorry for the long delay in posting another version. Testing is extremely
> time-consuming and I wasn't getting to work on this as much as I'd have liked.
>
> Changelog since V2
> o Dropped the kswapd-quickly-notice-high-order patch. In more detailed
> testing, it made latencies even worse as kswapd slept more on high-order
> congestion causing order-0 direct reclaims.
> o Added changes to how congestion_wait() works
> o Added a number of new patches altering the behaviour of reclaim

so is there anything promissing for the order 5 allocation problems
in this set?

cheers
tobi


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