On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 07:59:17PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > <SNIP> > > Now, a way out here is to remove lumpy reclaim (please). And make the > problem not come back by promising to never call putback_lru_pages(lots > of pages) (how do we do this?). > > So I think the best way ahead here is to distribute this patch in the > same release in which we remove lumpy reclaim (pokes Mel). > I'll take a look at this in the New Years. Removing lumpy reclaim is straight-forward. Making sure that it does not ruin THP allocation success rates will be the time consuming part. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. 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>