On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:49:23PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > While compaction is migrating pages to free up large contiguous blocks for > allocation it races with other allocation requests that may steal these > blocks or break them up. This patch alters direct compaction to capture a > suitable free page as soon as it becomes available to reduce this race. It > uses similar logic to split_free_page() to ensure that watermarks are > still obeyed. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
-- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- 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/
