Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm: compaction: Use synchronous compaction for /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory

[Rik van Riel]

On 11/18/2011 11:58 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> When asynchronous compaction was introduced, the
> /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory handler should have been updated to always
> use synchronous compaction. This did not happen so this patch addresses
> it. The assumption is if a user writes to /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory,
> they are willing for that process to stall.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mgorman@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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