> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:30:42 +0100 (IST) Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > + > + /* > + * It's a race if compaction frees a suitable page but > + * someone else allocates it > + */ > + count_vm_event(COMPACTRACE); > + }
Could perhaps cause arbitrarily long starvation. A fix would be to free the synchronously-compacted higher-order page into somewhere which is private to this task (a new field in task_struct would be one such place). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
