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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: mel@csn.ul.ie, cl@linux-foundation.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Set a smaller value for RECLAIM_DISTANCE to enable zone reclaim
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:38:38 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100223013838.GF31681@kryten> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <661de9471002190743t5385d97hf38c544f0007879c@mail.gmail.com>

 
Hi Balbir,

> A reclaim distance of 10 implies a ratio of 1, that means we'll always
> do zone_reclaim() to free page cache and slab cache before moving on
> to another node?

I want to make an effort to reclaim local pagecache before ever going
off node. As an example, a completely off node stream result is almost 3x
slower than on node on my test box.

Anton

      reply	other threads:[~2010-02-23  1:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-18 22:29 [PATCH] powerpc: Set a smaller value for RECLAIM_DISTANCE to enable zone reclaim Anton Blanchard
2010-02-19  0:07 ` Anton Blanchard
2010-02-19 14:55   ` Mel Gorman
2010-02-19 15:12     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-02-19 15:41       ` Balbir Singh
2010-02-19 15:51         ` Christoph Lameter
2010-02-19 17:39           ` Balbir Singh
2010-02-23  1:55     ` Anton Blanchard
2010-02-23 16:23       ` Mel Gorman
2010-02-24 15:43       ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-01 12:06       ` Mel Gorman
2010-03-01 15:19         ` Christoph Lameter
2010-02-19 15:43 ` Balbir Singh
2010-02-23  1:38   ` Anton Blanchard [this message]

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