On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 01:04:06PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > Kswapd and page reclaim behaviour has been screwy in one way or the other > for a long time. Very broadly speaking it worked in the far past because > machines were limited in memory so it did not have that many pages to scan > and it stalled congestion_wait() frequently to prevent it going completely > nuts. In recent times it has behaved very unsatisfactorily with some of > the problems compounded by the removal of stall logic and the introduction > of transparent hugepage support with high-order reclaims. > With the current set of feedback the series as it currently stands for me is located here git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux.git mm-vmscan-limit-reclaim-v2r7 I haven't tested this version myself yet but others might be interested. -- 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>