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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel Spång" <daniel.spang@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/5] memory_pressure_notify() caller
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:59:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080115175925.215471e1@bree.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cfd9edbf0801151455j48669850s7ea4fe589dbb9710@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:55:17 +0100
"Daniel SpAJPYng" <daniel.spang@gmail.com> wrote:

> The notification fires after only ~100 MB allocated, i.e., when page
> reclaim is beginning to nag from page cache. Isn't this a bit early?
> Repeating the test with swap enabled results in a notification after
> ~600 MB allocated, which is more reasonable and just before the system
> starts to swap.

Your issue may have more to do with the fact that the
highmem zone is 128MB in size and some balancing issues
between __alloc_pages and try_to_free_pages.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-15 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-15  0:52 [RFC][PATCH 0/5] mem notifications v4 KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15  0:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/5] introduce poll_wait_exclusive() new API KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15  1:00 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/5] introduce wake_up_locked_nr() " KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15  1:01 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/5] add /dev/mem_notify device KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15  1:08   ` Randy Dunlap
2008-01-15  1:20     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15  1:24       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15  2:10   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-01-15  2:20     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15  2:56       ` Rik van Riel
2008-01-15 10:46   ` Alan Cox
2008-01-15 10:59     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 11:20       ` Alan Cox
2008-01-15 11:48         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 13:42           ` Alan Cox
2008-01-16  2:43             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 12:05         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-01-15 13:42           ` Alan Cox
2008-01-15 22:16   ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-16  1:57     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-16  4:13       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-01-16 11:42         ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-16 11:51           ` Daniel Spång
2008-01-17  3:04             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15  1:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/5] memory_pressure_notify() caller KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15  2:06   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-01-15  2:37     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15  3:00       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-01-15  3:08         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 22:55   ` Daniel Spång
2008-01-15 22:59     ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2008-01-15 23:39       ` Daniel Spång
2008-01-16  1:48         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-16 11:03           ` Daniel Spång
2008-01-17  3:26             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-18 10:24               ` Daniel Spång
2008-01-18 10:30                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15  1:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/5] /proc/zoneinfo enhancement KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 10:44   ` Alan Cox
2008-01-15 10:49     ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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