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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Set a smaller value for RECLAIM_DISTANCE to
	enable zone reclaim
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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