On 04/23/2015 02:24 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 04/23/2015 02:23 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:41:34 -0400 Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2015, Sri Jayaramappa wrote:
>>>
>>>> Commit commit 5bbe3547aa3b ("mm: allow compaction of unevictable pages")
>>>> introduced a sysctl that allows userspace to enable scanning of locked
>>>> pages for compaction. This patch introduces a new test which fragments
>>>> main memory and attempts to allocate a number of huge pages to exercise
>>>> this compaction logic.
>>>>
>>>> Tested on machines with up to 32 GB RAM. With the patch a much larger
>>>> number of huge pages can be allocated than on the kernel without the
>>>> patch.
>>>>
>>>> Example output:
>>>> On a machine with 16 GB RAM:
>>>> sudo make run_tests vm
>>>> ...
>>>> -----------------------
>>>> running compaction_test
>>>> -----------------------
>>>> No of huge pages allocated = 3834
>>>> [PASS]
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Sri Jayaramappa <sjayaram@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Cc: linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I'm assuming that Shuah will process this one?
>>
>
> Yes. I will get this one after the merge window closes.
>
Hi Sri Jayaramappa,
The patch didn't pass checkpatch. Several trailing whitespace
errors. Could you please fix these and resend.
thanks,
-- Shuah
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Shuah Khan
Sr. Linux Kernel Developer
Open Source Innovation Group
Samsung Research America (Silicon Valley)
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