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From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:55:07 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] zone_reclaim is always 0 by default
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To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:50:48PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:

Let me start by saying I agree completely with everything you wrote and
still disagree with this patch, but was willing to compromise and work
around this for our upcoming x86_64 machine by putting a "value add"
into our packaging of adding a sysctl that turns reclaim back on.

...
> > Index: b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h
> > =================================> > --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h
> > @@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ struct device_node;
> >  
> >  #include <asm/mmzone.h>
> >  
> > +/*
> > + * Distance above which we begin to use zone reclaim
> > + */
> > +#define RECLAIM_DISTANCE 20
> > +
> > +
> 
> Where is the ia-64-specific modifier to RECAIM_DISTANCE?

It was already defined as 15 in arch/ia64/include/asm/topology.h

Thanks,
Robin