On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/09/2012 08:54 AM, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:21:55PM +0100, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: >>> >>> it looks good. Neither do I get the huge debug_objects_cache >>> nor does it swap, after running a crosstool-ng toolchain build. >>> Well, last time I also had one kvm -m 1G instance running. I'll >>> try if that triggers the issue. So far: >> >> >> The kvm produced a bunch of page allocation failures >> on the host: > > >> (repeats a few times) >> >> I guess that is expected with your patch? > > > That is indeed why my patch series was significantly larger > than Hillf's little test patch :) > Yes, Johannes did show that kswapd running purely in single mode, without helps from compaction or lumpy, could not meet all requests in VM core. Thank you all Hillf -- 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