Re: [PATCH] mm, vmscan: Do not special-case slab reclaim when watermarks are boosted

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Fri Aug 09 2019 - 05:59:26 EST


On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 10:46:19AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 8/8/19 8:29 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > Removing the special casing can still indirectly help fragmentation by
>
> I think you mean e.g. 'against fragmentation'?
>

Yes.

> > Fixes: 1c30844d2dfe ("mm: reclaim small amounts of memory when an external fragmentation event occurs")
> > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v5.0+
>
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

Thanks!

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs