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From: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: robm@fastmail.fm, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: Re: Default zone_reclaim_mode = 1 on NUMA kernel is bad for file/email/web servers
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:14:42 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100923114442.GK3952@balbir.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100916184240.3BC9.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>

* KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> [2010-09-16 19:01:32]:

> +			if (!(zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_CACHE) &&
> +			    (gfp_mask & GFP_MOVABLE_MASK) == GFP_MOVABLE_MASK) {
> +				inc_zone_state(zone, NR_ZONE_CACHE_AVOID);
> +				goto try_next_zone;
> +			}
> +

Interesting approach, so for page cache related applications we expect
RECLAIM_CACHE to be set and hence zone_reclaim to occur. I have
another variation, a new gfp flag called __GFP_FREE_CACHE. You can
find the patches at

http://lwn.net/Articles/391293/
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/49155

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	Three Cheers,
	Balbir

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-23 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1284349152.15254.1394658481@webmail.messagingengine.com>
2010-09-16 10:01 ` Default zone_reclaim_mode = 1 on NUMA kernel is bad for file/email/web servers KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-16 17:06   ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-17  0:50     ` Robert Mueller
2010-09-17  6:01       ` Shaohua Li
2010-09-17  7:32         ` Robert Mueller
2010-09-17 13:56           ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-17 14:09             ` Bron Gondwana
2010-09-17 14:22               ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-17 23:01                 ` Bron Gondwana
2010-09-20  9:34   ` Mel Gorman
2010-09-20 23:41     ` Default zone_reclaim_mode = 1 on NUMA kernel is bad forfile/email/web servers Rob Mueller
2010-09-21  9:04       ` Mel Gorman
2010-09-21 14:14         ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-22  3:44           ` Rob Mueller
2010-09-27  2:01         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-27 13:53           ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-27 23:17             ` Robert Mueller
2010-09-28 12:35               ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-28 12:42                 ` Bron Gondwana
2010-09-28 12:49                   ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-30  7:05             ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-04 12:45             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-04 13:07               ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-05  5:32                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-04 19:43               ` David Rientjes
2010-09-21  1:05   ` Default zone_reclaim_mode = 1 on NUMA kernel is bad for file/email/web servers KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-09-27  2:04     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-27  2:06       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-09-23 11:44   ` Balbir Singh [this message]
2010-09-30  8:38   ` Bron Gondwana

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