linux-kernel - Re: [patch 09/19] (NEW) more aggressively use lumpy reclaim

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801081429150.4678@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:30:16 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, mel@...net.ie
Subject: Re: [patch 09/19] (NEW) more aggressively use lumpy reclaim

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Rik van Riel wrote:

> If normal pageout does not result in contiguous free pages for
> kernel stacks, fall back to lumpy reclaim instead of failing fork
> or doing excessive pageout IO.

Good. Ccing Mel. This is going to help higher order pages which is useful 
for a couple of other projects.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
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