From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752171Ab0CQDS6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:18:58 -0400 Received: from fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.35]:45173 "EHLO fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751550Ab0CQDS4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:18:56 -0400 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/11] Add /proc trigger for memory compaction Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli , Christoph Lameter , Adam Litke , Avi Kivity , David Rientjes , Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: <1268412087-13536-9-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> References: <1268412087-13536-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <1268412087-13536-9-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> Message-Id: <20100317121821.4CA6.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.50.07 [ja] Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:18:53 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > This patch adds a proc file /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory. When an arbitrary > value is written to the file, all zones are compacted. The expected user > of such a trigger is a job scheduler that prepares the system before the > target application runs. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman > Acked-by: Rik van Riel > Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki > Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro