Re: [PATCH 16/34] mm: compaction: Allow compaction to isolate dirty pages

2012-07-25 Thread Mel Gorman
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:47:45AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:38:29PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > commit a77ebd333cd810d7b680d544be88c875131c2bd3 upstream. > > > > Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. A fix aimed at preserving page aging > > information by reducing LR

Re: [PATCH 16/34] mm: compaction: Allow compaction to isolate dirty pages

2012-07-25 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:38:29PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > commit a77ebd333cd810d7b680d544be88c875131c2bd3 upstream. > > Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. A fix aimed at preserving page aging > information by reducing LRU list churning had the side-effect of > reducing THP alloc

[PATCH 16/34] mm: compaction: Allow compaction to isolate dirty pages

2012-07-23 Thread Mel Gorman
commit a77ebd333cd810d7b680d544be88c875131c2bd3 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. A fix aimed at preserving page aging information by reducing LRU list churning had the side-effect of reducing THP allocation success rates. This was part of a series to restore

[PATCH 16/34] mm: compaction: Allow compaction to isolate dirty pages

2012-07-19 Thread Mel Gorman
commit a77ebd333cd810d7b680d544be88c875131c2bd3 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. A fix aimed at preserving page aging information by reducing LRU list churning had the side-effect of reducing THP allocation success rates. This was part of a series to restore