On Mon 06-08-18 15:37:14, Cristopher Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 6 Aug 2018, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > Because a lot of FS metadata is fragmenting the memory and a large > > number of high order allocations which want to be served reclaim a lot > > of memory to achieve their gol. Considering a large part of memory is > > fragmented by unmovable objects there is no other way than to use > > reclaim to release that memory. > > Well it looks like the fragmentation issue gets worse. Is that enough to > consider merging the slab defrag patchset and get some work done on inodes > and dentries to make them movable (or use targetd reclaim)? Is there anything to test? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
