On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 03:01:02PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > Currently a failed order-9 (transparent hugepage) compaction can > lead to memory compaction being temporarily disabled for a memory > zone. Even if we only need compaction for an order 2 allocation, > eg. for jumbo frames networking. > > The fix is relatively straightforward: keep track of the highest > order at which compaction is succeeding, and only defer compaction > for orders at which compaction is failing. > > Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> -- 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>