Re: [PATCH 01 of 66] disable lumpy when compaction is enabled

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Thu Nov 18 2010 - 03:31:11 EST


On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 04:27:36PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Compaction is more reliable than lumpy, and lumpy makes the system unusable
> when it runs.
>

It took me a while but is "[PATCH 0/8] Use memory compaction instead of
lumpy reclaim during high-order allocations" a suitable replacement for
this patch?

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Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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