From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx123.postini.com [74.125.245.123]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B27B66B0032 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 13:52:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <51FBF1BA.9030801@surriel.com> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:51:54 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [patch v2 3/3] mm: page_alloc: fair zone allocator policy References: <1375457846-21521-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <1375457846-21521-4-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> In-Reply-To: <1375457846-21521-4-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Johannes Weiner Cc: Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , Andrea Arcangeli , Zlatko Calusic , Minchan Kim , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/02/2013 11:37 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote: > Each zone that holds userspace pages of one workload must be aged at a > speed proportional to the zone size. Otherwise, the time an > individual page gets to stay in memory depends on the zone it happened > to be allocated in. Asymmetry in the zone aging creates rather > unpredictable aging behavior and results in the wrong pages being > reclaimed, activated etc. > When zone_reclaim_mode is enabled, allocations will now spread out to > all zones on the local node, not just the first preferred zone (which > on a 4G node might be a tiny Normal zone). > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner > Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed. -- 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