On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:47:41 +0900 Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:03 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki > <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:25:42 +0000 > > Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> This patch is the core of a mechanism which compacts memory in a zone by > >> relocating movable pages towards the end of the zone. > >> > >> A single compaction run involves a migration scanner and a free scanner. > >> Both scanners operate on pageblock-sized areas in the zone. The migration > >> scanner starts at the bottom of the zone and searches for all movable pages > >> within each area, isolating them onto a private list called migratelist. > >> The free scanner starts at the top of the zone and searches for suitable > >> areas and consumes the free pages within making them available for the > >> migration scanner. The pages isolated for migration are then migrated to > >> the newly isolated free pages. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> > >> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > I think lru_add_drain() or lru_add_drain_all() should be called somewhere > > when we do __isolate_lru_page(). But it's (_all is) slow.... > > > > migrate_prep does it. > Thanks. Hmm...then, lru_add_drain_all() is called at each (32page migrate) itelation. Isn't it too slow to be called in such frequency ? Thanks, -Kame -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>