From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-lf0-f70.google.com (mail-lf0-f70.google.com [209.85.215.70]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8407D6B0005 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 09:54:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-lf0-f70.google.com with SMTP id 33so11393433lfw.1 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 06:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gum.cmpxchg.org (gum.cmpxchg.org. [85.214.110.215]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s133si20729956wms.104.2016.07.12.06.54.39 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 12 Jul 2016 06:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 09:54:35 -0400 From: Johannes Weiner Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/34] mm, vmscan: begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis Message-ID: <20160712135435.GB5881@cmpxchg.org> References: <1467970510-21195-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net> <1467970510-21195-6-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1467970510-21195-6-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux-MM , Rik van Riel , Vlastimil Babka , Minchan Kim , Joonsoo Kim , LKML On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 10:34:41AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > This patch makes reclaim decisions on a per-node basis. A reclaimer knows > what zone is required by the allocation request and skips pages from > higher zones. In many cases this will be ok because it's a GFP_HIGHMEM > request of some description. On 64-bit, ZONE_DMA32 requests will cause > some problems but 32-bit devices on 64-bit platforms are increasingly > rare. Historically it would have been a major problem on 32-bit with big > Highmem:Lowmem ratios but such configurations are also now rare and even > where they exist, they are not encouraged. If it really becomes a > problem, it'll manifest as very low reclaim efficiencies. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman > Acked-by: Hillf Danton Acked-by: Johannes Weiner -- 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