Re: [patch] mm, compaction: ignore pageblock skip when manuallyinvoking compaction

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Fri Jan 24 2014 - 06:18:31 EST


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 09:56:31PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> The cached pageblock hint should be ignored when triggering compaction
> through /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory so all eligible memory is isolated.
> Manually invoking compaction is known to be expensive, there's no need to
> skip pageblocks based on heuristics (mainly for debugging).
>
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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