Re: [patch] mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility fix

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On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 03:50:07PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> 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.

Ugh, I missed this one on the mail pile.

That's a nice feature for all system, indeed. I'd say you're 100% right. Would
you mind in submitting the change?

Thanks David, and sorry sorry for the late reply.

Rafael

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