On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 05:05:59PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 17:02:44 +0100 > Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This patch adds a per-node sysfs file called compact. When the file is > > written to, each zone in that node is compacted. The intention that this > > would be used by something like a job scheduler in a batch system before > > a job starts so that the job can allocate the maximum number of > > hugepages without significant start-up cost. > > Would it make more sense if this was a per-memcg thing rather than a > per-node thing? > Kamezawa Hiroyuki covered this perfectly. memcg doesn't care and while cpuset might, there are a lot more people working with nodes than there are with cpuset. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- 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>