Re: kswapd eating too much CPU on ac16/ac18

Roger Larsson
2000-06-17T21:34:55Z

Hi,

The reason for me to ask you to remove it is since there are two
problems
related to this code snippet. (Reported earlier on linux-mm)

* If no zone has pressure - we will loop "forever" since no pages will
pass
this test. (On a 16 MB machine this is the likely scenario)

* If there are no pages of a zone with pressure are on LRU - we will
loop...

And since there is no guarantee that shrink_mmap is not called in these
circumstances...

I have released patches (on linux-mm) that tries to handle these
situations.
* do_try_to_free_pages avoids to call shrink_mmap with no pressure.
* shrink_mmap tries to determine the bad situation (not in my latest)

/RogerL

Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
>
> > Please try to remove only this test to get a comparable result.
>
> I nuked the whole block:
>
> /*
> * Page is from a zone we don't care about.
> * Don't drop page cache entries in vain.
> */
> if (page->zone->free_pages > page->zone->pages_high) {
> /* the page from the wrong zone doesn't count */
> count++;
> goto unlock_continue;
> }
>
> Commenting it out made ac19 perform almost as good as ac4 (it looked a bit
> faster).
>
> I don't know how it would affect boxes with more than one zone, but my gut
> feeling is that it won't hurt and might make them even a bit faster.
>
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