From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: raise MemFree by reverting percpu_pagelist_fraction to 0
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 16:51:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB0C789.6010107@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+1xoqc15HY1rECsJ6Aj1WMzwT12z4DByJhFopyBAiKawEFh3Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/12/2012 12:35 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Minchan Kim<minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I didn't have a time so made quick patch to show just concept.
>>> Not tested and Not consider carefully.
>>> If anyone doesn't oppose, I will send formal patch which will have more beauty code.
>>
>> What's so magical about that '8' *anyway*? We do we have that minimum at all?
>>
>> At the very least, the 8-vs-0 thing needs to be explained.
>
> The '0' acts as an "off" switch.
>
> Once it's on, we reserve 1/x of the pages for the pagelists. I'm not
> sure why 8 was selected in the first place, but I guess it made sense
> that you don't want to reserve 15%+ of your memory for the pagelists.
1/x is not user-friendly, other vm sysctl's use percentage (x%), for
example, overcommit_ratio.
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From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: raise MemFree by reverting percpu_pagelist_fraction to 0
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 16:51:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB0C789.6010107@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+1xoqc15HY1rECsJ6Aj1WMzwT12z4DByJhFopyBAiKawEFh3Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/12/2012 12:35 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Minchan Kim<minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I didn't have a time so made quick patch to show just concept.
>>> Not tested and Not consider carefully.
>>> If anyone doesn't oppose, I will send formal patch which will have more beauty code.
>>
>> What's so magical about that '8' *anyway*? We do we have that minimum at all?
>>
>> At the very least, the 8-vs-0 thing needs to be explained.
>
> The '0' acts as an "off" switch.
>
> Once it's on, we reserve 1/x of the pages for the pagelists. I'm not
> sure why 8 was selected in the first place, but I guess it made sense
> that you don't want to reserve 15%+ of your memory for the pagelists.
1/x is not user-friendly, other vm sysctl's use percentage (x%), for
example, overcommit_ratio.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-14 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-11 8:00 [PATCH] mm: raise MemFree by reverting percpu_pagelist_fraction to 0 Hugh Dickins
2012-05-11 8:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-05-11 8:30 ` Sasha Levin
2012-05-11 8:30 ` Sasha Levin
2012-05-11 8:38 ` Minchan Kim
2012-05-11 8:38 ` Minchan Kim
2012-05-11 9:01 ` Minchan Kim
2012-05-11 9:01 ` Minchan Kim
2012-05-11 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-11 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-11 16:35 ` Sasha Levin
2012-05-11 16:35 ` Sasha Levin
2012-05-11 16:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-11 16:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-14 8:51 ` Cong Wang [this message]
2012-05-14 8:51 ` Cong Wang
2012-05-11 14:10 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-05-11 14:10 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-05-14 1:51 ` Minchan Kim
2012-05-14 1:51 ` Minchan Kim
2012-05-11 16:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-11 16:26 ` Linus Torvalds
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