From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, raybry@sgi.com, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/4] VM: Manual and Automatic page cache reclaim
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:56:07 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504280755170.32328@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050427233335.492d0b6f.akpm@osdl.org>
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Is it not possible to change the page allocator's zone fallback mechanism
> so that once the local node's zones' pages are all allocated, we don't
> simply advance onto the next node? Instead, could we not perform a bit of
> reclaim on this node's zones first? Only advance onto the next nodes if
> things aren't working out?
IMHO that's the best idea. The patches posted add new
mechanisms to the VM and have the potential to disturb
LRU ordering quite a bit - which could make the VM
worse under load.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-28 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-27 15:08 Martin Hicks
2005-04-27 17:36 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-04-28 6:33 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-28 11:16 ` Nick Piggin
2005-04-28 11:56 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2005-04-28 12:53 ` Martin Hicks
2005-05-03 7:17 ` Ray Bryant
2005-05-03 8:08 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-03 13:21 ` Martin Hicks
2005-05-04 1:23 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-12 18:53 ` Martin Hicks
2005-05-12 18:57 ` Martin Hicks
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