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Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] Add /sys trigger for per-node memory compaction
From: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
       Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
       Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
       David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
       KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
       KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
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On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
> This patch adds a per-node sysfs file called compact. When the file is
> written to, each zone in that node is compacted. The intention that this
> would be used by something like a job scheduler in a batch system before
> a job starts so that the job can allocate the maximum number of
> hugepages without significant start-up cost.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>


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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim