On Thu, 12 May 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:30 PM, James Bottomley > > <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> So suggest an alternative root cause and a test to expose it. > > > > Is your .config available somewhere, btw? > > If it's this: > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=kernel.git;a=blob_plain;f=config-x86_64-generic;hb=HEAD > > I'd love to see what happens if you disable > > CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y > > because that's going to reduce high order allocations as well, no? I dont think that will change much since huge pages are at MAX_ORDER size. Either you can get them or not. The challenge with the small order allocations is that they require contiguous memory. Compaction is likely not as effective as the prior mechanism that did opportunistic reclaim of neighboring pages. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>