Re: [PATCH 03/10] mm: vmscan: Flatten kswapd priority loop

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Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> To avoid infinite looping for high-order allocation requests kswapd will
> not reclaim for high-order allocations when it has reclaimed at least
> twice the number of pages as the allocation request.

Will this make higher order allocations fail earlier? Or does compaction 
still kick in early enough.

I understand the motivation.

-Andi

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