From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configurable reclaim batch size
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:20:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1189812002.5826.31.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709141519230.14894@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 15:23 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> This patch allows a configuration of the basic reclaim unit for reclaim in
> vmscan.c. As memory sizes increase so will the frequency of running
> reclaim. Configuring the reclaim unit higher will reduce the number of
> times reclaim has to be entered and reduce the number of times that the
> zone locks have to be taken.
It increases the lock hold times though. Otoh it might work out with the
lock placement.
Do you have any numbers that show this is worthwhile?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-14 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-14 22:23 Christoph Lameter
2007-09-14 23:20 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-09-17 17:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-17 19:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-17 20:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-17 20:48 ` Balbir Singh
2007-09-17 21:24 ` Christoph Lameter
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