Re: [PATCH 0/8] Use memory compaction instead of lumpy reclaim duringhigh-order allocations

[Rik van Riel]

On 11/17/2010 06:46 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:22:41 +0000
> Mel Gorman<mel@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

> > I'm hoping that this series also removes the
> > necessity for the "delete lumpy reclaim" patch from the THP tree.
>
> Now I'm sad.  I read all that and was thinking "oh goody, we get to
> delete something for once".  But no :(
>
> If you can get this stuff to work nicely, why can't we remove lumpy
> reclaim?

I seem to remember there being some resistance against
removing lumpy reclaim, but I do not remember from
where or why.

IMHO some code deletion would be nice :)

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