linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.6] mm: wake kcompactd before kswapd's short sleep

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Message-ID: <1461175544.3200.20.camel@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:05:44 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.6] mm: wake kcompactd before kswapd's short sleep

On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 22:36 +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> When kswapd goes to sleep it checks if the node is balanced and at
> first it
> sleeps only for HZ/10 time, then rechecks if the node is still
> balanced and
> nobody has woken it during the initial sleep. Only then it goes fully
> sleep
> until an allocation slowpath wakes it up again.
> 

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