linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: vmscan: Limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations

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Message-ID: <4E8F53CD.9000609@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:32:29 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
CC:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>, aarcange@...hat.com,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: vmscan: Limit direct reclaim for higher order
 allocations

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