Re: [PATCH] slub: Avoid direct compaction if possible

[Roman Gushchin]

On 18.06.2013 01:44, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2013, Roman Gushchin wrote:

> They certainly aren't enough, the kernel you're running suffers from a
> couple different memory compaction issues that were fixed in 3.7.  I
> couldn't sympathize with your situation more, I faced the same issue
> because of thp and not slub (we use slab).
>
> > I'll try to reproduce the issue on raw 3.9.

I can't reproduce the issue on 3.9.
It seems that compaction fixes in 3.7 solve the problem.

> Thanks.  If you need to go back to 3.4, try using these, they
> significantly helped our issues:
>
> bb13ffeb9f6bfeb301443994dfbf29f91117dfb3
> 627260595ca6abcb16d68a3732bac6b547e112d6
> c89511ab2f8fe2b47585e60da8af7fd213ec877e
> 62997027ca5b3d4618198ed8b1aba40b61b1137b
> a9aacbccf3145355190d87f0df1731fb84fdd8c8

Thank you!

Regards,
Roman


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