Re: Minor page faults from memory compaction causing in-band transitions

Philippe Gerum <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.xenomai
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Florian Bezdeka <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, 2026-04-13 at 20:31 +0200, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>> Brandon Ho <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> > Thank you for the responses! I recently came across the
>> > `compact_unevictable_allowed` sysctl option and it seems like it could be a
>> > good fit for our use case. Setting it to 0 would prevent the kernel from
>> > compacting/migrating locked pages, which should eliminate the minor faults
>> > we're seeing during compaction.
>> > 
>> > Could we possibly set `compact_unevictable_allowed=0` by default when
>> > CONFIG_EVL is enabled?
>> 
>> Definitely, yes. Thanks for chasing this issue down. This patch is going
>> to be merged upstream asap, you may want to apply it for a preview.
>
> Targeting linux-evl or linux-dovetail?
>

linux-dovetail, this is a general issue for any latency-sensitive code.


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Philippe.
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