From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
Cc: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, riel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lowmem_reserve (replaces protection)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:33:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041026223335.6a1dad18.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041027044445.GV14325@dualathlon.random>
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com> wrote:
>
> So after allocating the highmem pages we invoke kswapd
> again
Nope. We don't wake kswapd until the lower zones are below pages_low as
well. Then we rebalance all the zones which are below pages_high.
As I say: run a workload mix and monitor /proc/vmstat:
pgscan_kswapd_high
pgscan_kswapd_normal
pgscan_kswapd_dma
These should be increasing at rates which are proportional to their size,
if most allocations have __GFP_HIGHMEM.
The lower-zone protection thing means that the scanning rate really should
be proportional to (zone size - (protection from __GFP_HIGHMEM
allocations)), but it's not too far off at present.
The balancing of the zone scanning rates is subtle and easy to break. As is
the balancing of that against slab scanning.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-27 5:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-25 17:01 lowmem_reserve (replaces protection) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-26 1:48 ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-26 1:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-26 3:48 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-26 4:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-26 4:17 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27 0:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 0:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-27 0:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 2:06 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-28 0:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 0:31 ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-27 0:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 0:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 1:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 2:08 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-27 2:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 2:56 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27 1:00 ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-27 1:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 2:05 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27 2:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 3:01 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27 3:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 3:34 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27 3:43 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-27 4:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 4:51 ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-27 5:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 5:50 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27 5:33 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-10-27 6:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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