From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Zlatko Calusic <zlatko@iskon.hr>
Cc: alan@redhat.com, Linux MM List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: [patch] improve streaming I/O [bug in shrink_mmap()]
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:29:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000612232932.I15054@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ln0abmji.fsf@atlas.iskon.hr>; from zlatko@iskon.hr on Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 11:46:09PM +0200
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 11:46:09PM +0200, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
>
> This simple one-liner solves a long standing problem in Linux VM.
> While searching for a discardable page in shrink_mmap() Linux was too
> easily failing and subsequently falling back to swapping. The problem
> was that shrink_mmap() counted pages from the wrong zone, and in case
> of balancing a relatively smaller zone (e.g. DMA zone on a 128MB
> computer) "count" would be mistakenly spent dealing with pages from
> the wrong zone. The net effect of all this was spurious swapping that
> hurt performance greatly.
Nice --- it might also explain some of the excessive kswap CPU
utilisation we've seen reported now and again.
--Stephen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-12 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-06-12 21:46 Zlatko Calusic
2000-06-12 22:29 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2000-06-12 23:04 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-13 15:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-13 17:08 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-06-13 19:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-13 19:32 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-13 23:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-13 23:34 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-14 0:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-14 0:58 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-14 1:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-14 1:33 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-14 2:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-14 2:46 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-14 13:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-14 13:44 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-14 13:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-14 16:48 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-14 17:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-14 17:33 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-14 18:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-13 23:41 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-06-14 0:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-13 19:20 ` Rik van Riel
2000-06-13 21:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-06-13 8:10 Roger Larsson
[not found] <8i3qe8$lltbv$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
2000-06-14 6:17 ` Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan
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