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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: Slowdown on 3000 socket-machines tracked down
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 01:09:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050310010955.000ea843.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1is3zvprz.fsf@muc.de>

Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:
>
> In general to solve it one has to increase /proc/sys/vm/freepages
>  a lot.

/proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes

>  It would be nice though if the VM tuned itself dynamically to a lot
>  of GFP_ATOMIC requests. And maybe if GFP_ATOMIC was a bit more aggressive
>  and did some simple minded reclaiming that would be helpful too.
>  e.g. there could be a "easy to free" list in the VM for clean pages
>  where freeing is simple enough that it could be made interrupt safe.

I spose we could autotune the free memory thresholds somehow, if there is
good reason and a testcase.

Or we could run page reclaim from hard IRQ context - that could be a bit
expensive in terms of CPU consumption and latency though.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-10  9:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-05 17:10 BUG: Slowdown on 3000 socket-machines tracked down Christian Schmid
2005-03-07  0:45 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-07  1:13 ` Ben Greear
2005-03-07  1:58   ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-07  2:57     ` Ben Greear
2005-03-07  5:14       ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-07  5:30         ` Willy Tarreau
2005-03-07  5:41           ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-07  5:42             ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-07  5:46               ` Willy Tarreau
2005-03-07  9:22         ` Ben Greear
2005-03-07  9:28           ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-08  6:30             ` Ben Greear
2005-03-08 16:41               ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-09 23:45                 ` Ben Greear
2005-03-09 23:52                   ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-10  0:18                     ` Ben Greear
2005-03-10  0:24                       ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-10  5:17                         ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10  9:00                           ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-10  9:09                             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-03-10  9:12                               ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-10  9:38                                 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10 19:03                             ` Ben Greear
2005-03-10 18:51                           ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-10 19:06                           ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-11 15:29                           ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-11 19:10                             ` Ben Greear
2005-03-11 19:27                               ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-14  4:40                                 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-14  4:53                                   ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-14  5:04                                     ` Nick Piggin
2005-05-28  3:17                                       ` Christian Schmid
2005-06-08  2:26                                       ` Christian Schmid
2005-06-08  2:39                                         ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-08  2:44                                         ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-07 14:35       ` Christian Schmid
2005-03-07 23:37         ` Ben Greear
2005-03-07  2:07   ` Christian Schmid

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