On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:49:23PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > While compaction is migrating pages to free up large contiguous blocks for > allocation it races with other allocation requests that may steal these > blocks or break them up. This patch alters direct compaction to capture a > suitable free page as soon as it becomes available to reduce this race. It > uses similar logic to split_free_page() to ensure that watermarks are > still obeyed. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>