From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-io0-f180.google.com (mail-io0-f180.google.com [209.85.223.180]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86FED6B0253 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:15:31 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-io0-f180.google.com with SMTP id z135so220198231iof.0 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:15:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from resqmta-ch2-04v.sys.comcast.net (resqmta-ch2-04v.sys.comcast.net. [2001:558:fe21:29:69:252:207:36]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n4si4259276igv.3.2016.02.23.09.15.30 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:15:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:15:29 -0600 (CST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/27] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v2 In-Reply-To: <1456239890-20737-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net> Message-ID: References: <1456239890-20737-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Linux-MM , Rik van Riel , Vlastimil Babka , Johannes Weiner , LKML , Andi Kleen On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, Mel Gorman wrote: > Conceptually, moving to node LRUs should be easier to understand. The > page allocator plays fewer tricks to game reclaim and reclaim behaves > similarly on all nodes. I think this is a good way to simplify reclaim and limit the nasty effects of zones a bit. It probably would allow us to long term rely less on zones. -- 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