On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, David Rientjes wrote: > > This is already addressed at v12 revision which is on mmtom queue already. > > > > Ah, it was merged yesterday but it depends on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE rather > than COMPACTION. Why? Surely thp is not the only thing that benefits > from keeping memory defragmented for high-order allocs. > Ping on this? The direct question was why depend on TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE rather than COMPACTION, i.e. why do only order-9 allocations benefit from defragmented memory rather than all high order allocations? Thanks. -- 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>