RE: [PATCH 4/4] zone_reclaim_mode is always 0 by default

["Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>]

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Wu, Fengguang
>>Sent: 2009Äê5ÔÂ18ÈÕ 11:49
>>To: KOSAKI Motohiro
>>Cc: LKML; linux-mm; Andrew Morton; Rik van Riel; Christoph Lameter; Zhang,
>>Yanmin
>>Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] zone_reclaim_mode is always 0 by default
>>
>>On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:08:12PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>>> Subject: [PATCH] zone_reclaim_mode is always 0 by default
>>>
>>> Current linux policy is, if the machine has large remote node distance,
>>>  zone_reclaim_mode is enabled by default because we've be able to assume to
>>> large distance mean large server until recently.
>>>
>>> Unfrotunately, recent modern x86 CPU (e.g. Core i7, Opeteron) have P2P
>>transport
>>> memory controller. IOW it's NUMA from software view.
>>>
>>> Some Core i7 machine has large remote node distance and zone_reclaim don't
>>> fit desktop and small file server. it cause performance degression.
>>
>>I can confirm this, Yanmin recently ran into exactly such a
>>regression, which was fixed by manually disabling the zone reclaim
>>mode. So I guess you can safely add an
[YM] Fengguang told the truth. One Nehalem machine has 12GB memory,
but there is always 2GB free although applications accesses lots of files.
Eventually we located the root cause as zone_reclaim_mode=1.

Acked.



>>
>>Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
>>
>>> Thus, zone_reclaim == 0 is better by default. sorry, HPC gusy.
>>> you need to turn zone_reclaim_mode on manually now.
>>
>>I guess the borderline will continue to blur up. It will be more
>>dependent on workloads instead of physical NUMA capabilities. So
>>
>>Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
>>> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
>>> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>>  mm/page_alloc.c |    7 -------
>>>  1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> Index: b/mm/page_alloc.c
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
>>> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
>>> @@ -2494,13 +2494,6 @@ static void build_zonelists(pg_data_t *p
>>>  		int distance = node_distance(local_node, node);
>>>
>>>  		/*
>>> -		 * If another node is sufficiently far away then it is better
>>> -		 * to reclaim pages in a zone before going off node.
>>> -		 */
>>> -		if (distance > RECLAIM_DISTANCE)
>>> -			zone_reclaim_mode = 1;
>>> -
>>> -		/*
>>>  		 * We don't want to pressure a particular node.
>>>  		 * So adding penalty to the first node in same
>>>  		 * distance group to make it round-robin.
>>>
>>>
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