From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] - Improve drain pages performance on large systems
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:17:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m262skx26v.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110215223840.GA27420@sgi.com> (Jack Steiner's message of "Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:38:40 -0600")
Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> writes:
> Heavy swapping within a cpuset causes frequent calls to drain_all_pages().
I suspect drain_all_pages should be really made more zone aware in the
first place and only drain what is actually needed (e.g.
work off a zonelist). I was fighting with this for hwpoison too.
That said your patch looks reasonable.
-Andi
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-21 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-15 22:38 Jack Steiner
2011-02-16 0:00 ` Minchan Kim
2011-02-16 3:01 ` David Rientjes
2011-02-16 15:43 ` Jack Steiner
2011-02-16 0:17 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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