linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm: kswapd: Continue reclaiming for reclaim/compaction if the minimum number of pages have not been reclaimed

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <50211778.3030709@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:26:16 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
CC:	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Jim Schutt <jaschut@...dia.gov>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm: kswapd: Continue reclaiming for reclaim/compaction
 if the minimum number of pages have not been reclaimed

On 08/07/2012 08:31 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> When direct reclaim is running reclaim/compaction, there is a minimum
> number of pages it reclaims. As it must be under the low watermark to be
> in direct reclaim it has also woken kswapd to do some work. This patch
> has kswapd use the same logic as direct reclaim to reclaim a minimum
> number of pages so compaction can run later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mgorman@...e.de>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>

-- 
All rights reversed
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/