From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [RFC] Additional features for zone reclaim Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:55:54 +0100 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601180355.55001.ak@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 00:10, Christoph Lameter wrote: > This patch adds the ability to shrink the cache if a zone runs out of > memory or to start swapping out pages on a node. The slab shrink > has some issues since it is global and not related to the zone. > One could add support for zone specifications to the shrinker to > make that work. Got a patch halfway done that would modify all > shrinkers to take an additional zone parameters. But is that worth it? I was considering this when I was working on NUMA memory policy because the VM often got unhappy with MPOL_BIND under stress. Didn't do it to keep the patches simple, but it would be probably a good thing. -Andi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org