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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] vmscan: sleep only if backingdev is congested
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:02:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50395999.1030004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1345619717-5322-3-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org>

On 08/22/2012 03:15 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:

> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -2705,8 +2705,16 @@ loop_again:
>   		if (total_scanned && (sc.priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)) {
>   			if (has_under_min_watermark_zone)
>   				count_vm_event(KSWAPD_SKIP_CONGESTION_WAIT);
> -			else
> -				congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
> +			else {
> +				for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) {
> +					struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones
> +								+ i;
> +					if (!populated_zone(zone))
> +						continue;
> +					wait_iff_congested(zone, BLK_RW_ASYNC,
> +								HZ/10);
> +				}
> +			}
>   		}

Do we really want to wait on every zone?

That could increase the sleep time by a factor 3.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-25 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-22  7:15 [RFC 0/5] Consider higher small zone and mmaped-pages stream Minchan Kim
2012-08-22  7:15 ` [PATCH 1/5] vmscan: Fix obsolete comment of balance_pgdat Minchan Kim
2012-08-23 17:37   ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-22  7:15 ` [PATCH 2/5] vmscan: sleep only if backingdev is congested Minchan Kim
2012-08-25 23:02   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-08-22  7:15 ` [PATCH 3/5] vmscan: prevent excessive pageout of kswapd Minchan Kim
2012-08-22  7:15 ` [PATCH 4/5] vmscan: get rid of unnecessary nr_dirty ret variable Minchan Kim
2012-08-22  7:15 ` [PATCH 5/5] vmscan: accelerate to reclaim mapped-pages stream Minchan Kim

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