From: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@intel.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, "Shi, Alex" <alex.shi@intel.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: too big min_free_kbytes
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:08:47 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1298534927.19589.41.camel@sli10-conroe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110223144509.GG31195@random.random>
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 22:45 +0800, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 01:29:14PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > Fixing it will let more people enable THP by default. but anyway we will
> > disable it now if the issue can't be fixed.
>
> Did you try what happens with transparent_hugepage=madvise? If that
> doesn't fix it, it's min_free_kbytes issue.
with madvise, the min_free_kbytes is still high (same as the 'always'
case). The result is still we have about 50M memory is reserved. you can
try at your machine with boot option 'mem=2G' and check the zoneinfo
output.
Thanks,
Shaohua
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-24 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-24 3:56 too big min_free_kbytes Shaohua Li
2011-01-24 15:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-01-25 14:35 ` Mel Gorman
2011-01-26 14:17 ` Mel Gorman
2011-01-26 15:23 ` Mel Gorman
2011-01-26 15:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-01-26 16:36 ` Mel Gorman
2011-01-26 17:42 ` Mel Gorman
2011-01-27 13:40 ` Mel Gorman
2011-01-27 15:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-01-27 16:03 ` Mel Gorman
2011-01-27 18:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-01-27 20:33 ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-27 21:31 ` Mel Gorman
2011-01-27 23:18 ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-28 10:35 ` Mel Gorman
2011-01-28 16:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-01-28 16:46 ` Mel Gorman
2011-01-28 17:16 ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-28 17:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-01-28 18:03 ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-28 18:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-01-28 19:34 ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-28 19:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-01-28 20:55 ` Rik van Riel
2011-01-29 19:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-01-28 17:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-01-28 17:10 ` Rik van Riel
2011-02-03 2:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-03 13:15 ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-03 18:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-03 14:36 ` Rik van Riel
2011-02-03 19:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-12 1:28 ` Simon Kirby
2011-02-14 2:25 ` Shaohua Li
2011-02-22 14:25 ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-22 14:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-22 14:50 ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-22 14:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-22 16:04 ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-22 16:40 ` Rik van Riel
2011-02-23 5:29 ` Shaohua Li
2011-02-23 14:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-24 8:08 ` Shaohua Li [this message]
2011-02-24 9:52 ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-24 9:57 ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-24 14:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-24 14:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-25 0:51 ` Shaohua Li
2011-02-25 12:13 ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-12 9:48 ` alex shi
2011-02-22 14:24 ` Mel Gorman
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