On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 01:04:06PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > Kswapd and page reclaim behaviour has been screwy in one way or the other > for a long time. Very broadly speaking it worked in the far past because > machines were limited in memory so it did not have that many pages to scan > and it stalled congestion_wait() frequently to prevent it going completely > nuts. In recent times it has behaved very unsatisfactorily with some of > the problems compounded by the removal of stall logic and the introduction > of transparent hugepage support with high-order reclaims. >
With the current set of feedback the series as it currently stands for me is located here git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux.git mm-vmscan-limit-reclaim-v2r7 I haven't tested this version myself yet but others might be interested. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- 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/

