linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm, vmscan: make shrink_node decisions more node-centric -fix

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Message-ID: <20160718161450.GD16465@cmpxchg.org>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:14:50 -0400
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm, vmscan: make shrink_node decisions more
 node-centric -fix

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 02:09:21PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The patch "mm, vmscan: make shrink_node decisions more node-centric"
> checks whether compaction is suitable on empty nodes. This is expensive
> rather than wrong but is worth fixing.
> 
> This is a fix to the mmotm patch
> mm-vmscan-make-shrink_node-decisions-more-node-centric.patch
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>