Re: [PATCH 0/2] Disable zone_reclaim_mode by default

[Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>]

On 04/08/2014 12:34 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> When it was introduced, zone_reclaim_mode made sense as NUMA distances
> punished and workloads were generally partitioned to fit into a NUMA
> node. NUMA machines are now common but few of the workloads are NUMA-aware
> and it's routine to see major performance due to zone_reclaim_mode being
> disabled but relatively few can identify the problem.
     ^ I think you meant "enabled" here?

Just in case the cover letter goes to the changelog...

Vlastimil

> Those that require zone_reclaim_mode are likely to be able to detect when
> it needs to be enabled and tune appropriately so lets have a sensible
> default for the bulk of users.
>
>   Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 17 +++++++++--------
>   include/linux/mmzone.h      |  1 -
>   mm/page_alloc.c             | 17 +----------------
>   3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>

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