Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] mm: kswapd carefully invoke compaction

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

> I believe we do need some background compaction, especially
> to help allocations from network interrupts.

I completely agree.


> If you believe the compaction is better done from some
> other thread, I guess we could do that, but truthfully, if
> kswapd spends a lot of time doing compaction, I made a
> mistake somewhere :)

I don't have much experience of compaction on real production systems.
but I have a few bad experience of background lumpy reclaim. If much
network allocation is happen when kswapd get stucked large order lumpy
reclaim, kswapd can't work for making order-0 job.it was bad. I'm only
worry about similar issue will occur.

But, ok, we can fix it when we actually observed such thing. So,
please go ahead.
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