2.6.8.1-np1

2.6.8.1-np1

[Nick Piggin]

http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/2.6.8.1-np1/

Again, this is only against 2.6.8.1-mm2 for now due to the amount of
scheduler and memory management patches in Andrew's tree.

This introduces per-zone inode and dcache scanning lists. These
introduce a theoretical problem (solveable, but would take some work)
however in practice I don't think it would cause a problem.

Also introduces "free_local_harder", which attempts to free some node
local memory before going remote. It is quite dumb at the moment, and
performs the scanning from process context (should be moved to kswapd
context), however it seems to usually do what it is supposed to. It
can be switched off by echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/free_local_harder.

These should be good for NUMA performance, although free_local_harder
will, by definition, introduce regressions for some workloads.

Unfortunately, free_local_harder sits pretty firmly on top of my other
memory management changes, which may introduce problems themselves.
Even so, feedback would be cool.