On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 07:36:22AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > 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. > Compaction should still kick in early enough. The impact it might have is that direct reclaim/compaction may be used more than it was in the past. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- 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>