From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: karl.vogel@pandora.be, axboe@suse.de, wli@holomorphy.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.8.1: swap storm of death - nr_requests > 1024 on swap partition
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:51:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040830165100.535e68e5.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040830221727.GE2955@logos.cnet>
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> wrote:
>
> What you think of this, which tries to address your comments
Suggest you pass the scan_control structure down into pageout(), stick
`inflight' into struct scan_control and use some flag in scan_control to
ensure that we only throttle once per try_to_free_pages()/blaance_pgdat()
pass.
See, page reclaim is now, as much as possible, "batched". Think of it as
operating in units of 32 pages at a time. We should only examine the dirty
memory thresholds and throttle once per "batch", not once per page.
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2004-08-28 21:43 ` Kernel 2.6.8.1: swap storm of death - nr_requests > 1024 on swap partition Andrew Morton
2004-08-28 21:54 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-28 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-28 22:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 10:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-29 14:15 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-29 14:17 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-29 14:45 ` Rik van Riel
2004-08-29 20:18 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-29 20:30 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-29 20:59 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-29 22:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 22:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-30 7:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-08-30 15:20 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-30 18:01 ` Karl Vogel
2004-08-30 17:16 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-30 22:59 ` Karl Vogel
2004-08-30 20:33 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-30 22:37 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-30 22:17 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-30 23:51 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-08-31 10:23 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-31 16:02 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-31 17:50 ` Karl Vogel
2004-08-31 16:52 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-31 18:24 ` Karl Vogel
2004-08-31 17:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-31 19:36 ` Karl Vogel
2004-09-02 9:05 ` Rik van Riel
2004-08-30 23:02 ` Karl Vogel
2004-08-29 16:54 ` Jens Axboe
2004-08-29 17:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-28 21:59 ` Karl Vogel
2004-08-29 16:53 ` Jens Axboe
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