From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mel@csn.ul.ie
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmscan: bail out of page reclaim after swap_cluster_max pages
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 07:40:41 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0812010736240.11954@quilx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49316CAF.2010006@redhat.com>
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Rik van Riel wrote:
> When using mmap or memory hogs writing to swap, applications
> will not be throttled by the "too many dirty pages" logic,
> but may instead end up being throttled in the direct reclaim
> path instead.
The too many dirty pages logic will throttle applications dirtying
mmapped pages these days.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-01 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-24 19:50 Rik van Riel
2008-11-24 20:53 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-25 11:35 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-25 13:32 ` Rik van Riel
2008-11-25 14:30 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-28 7:02 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-28 11:03 ` Rik van Riel
2008-11-29 10:53 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-29 16:24 ` Rik van Riel
2008-11-30 6:30 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-12-03 5:26 ` [PATCH] vmscan: improve reclaim throuput to bail out patch KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-12-03 13:46 ` Rik van Riel
2008-12-03 15:12 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-12-04 1:28 ` [PATCH] vmscan: improve reclaim throuput to bail out patch take2 KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-12-04 4:20 ` MinChan Kim
2008-12-04 5:04 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-12-07 3:28 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-08 2:49 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-12-01 13:40 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-11-26 2:24 ` [PATCH] vmscan: bail out of page reclaim after swap_cluster_max pages KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-27 17:36 ` [rfc] vmscan: serialize aggressive reclaimers Johannes Weiner
2008-11-29 7:46 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-11-29 15:39 ` Johannes Weiner
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