On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 07:36:22AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de> writes: > > > > To avoid infinite looping for high-order allocation requests kswapd will > > not reclaim for high-order allocations when it has reclaimed at least > > twice the number of pages as the allocation request. > > Will this make higher order allocations fail earlier? Or does compaction > still kick in early enough. >
Compaction should still kick in early enough. The impact it might have is that direct reclaim/compaction may be used more than it was in the past. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
