Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: vmscan: Limit direct reclaim for higher orderallocations

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Fri Oct 07 2011 - 15:32:43 EST


On 10/07/2011 11:17 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
From: Rik van Riel<riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

When suffering from memory fragmentation due to unfreeable pages,
THP page faults will repeatedly try to compact memory. Due to the
unfreeable pages, compaction fails.

I believe Andrew just merged this one :)

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