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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, christoph@lameter.com,
	riel@redhat.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, npiggin@suse.de,
	andrea@suse.de, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
	magnus.damm@gmail.com, wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12] mm: supporting variables and functions for balanced zone aging
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 02:37:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051201023714.612f0bbf.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051201101933.936973000@localhost.localdomain>

Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:
>
>  The zone aging rates are currently imbalanced,

ZONE_DMA is out of whack.  It shouldn't be, and I'm not aware of anyone
getting in and working out why.  I certainly wouldn't want to go and add
all this stuff without having a good understanding of _why_ it's out of
whack.  Perhaps it's just some silly bug, like the thing I pointed at in
the previous email.

> the gap can be as large as 3 times,

What's the testcase?

> which can severely damage read-ahead requests and shorten their
>  effective life time.

Have you any performance numbers for this?

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-01 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-01 10:18 [PATCH 00/12] Balancing the scan rate of major caches Wu Fengguang
2005-12-01 10:18 ` [PATCH 01/12] vm: kswapd incmin Wu Fengguang
2005-12-01 10:33   ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-01 11:40     ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-01 10:18 ` [PATCH 02/12] mm: supporting variables and functions for balanced zone aging Wu Fengguang
2005-12-01 10:37   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-12-01 12:11     ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-01 22:28     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-12-01 23:03       ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-02  1:19         ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-02  1:30           ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-02  2:04             ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-02  2:18               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-12-02  2:37                 ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-02  2:52                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-12-02  4:45                 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-02  6:38                   ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-02  2:27               ` Nick Piggin
2005-12-02  2:36                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-12-02  2:43                 ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-02  5:49           ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-02  7:18             ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-02  7:27               ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-02 15:13             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-12-02 21:39               ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-03  0:26                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-12-04  6:06                   ` Wu Fengguang
2005-12-02  1:26         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-12-02  3:40           ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-01 10:18 ` [PATCH 03/12] mm: balance zone aging in direct reclaim path Wu Fengguang
2005-12-01 10:18 ` [PATCH 04/12] mm: balance zone aging in kswapd " Wu Fengguang
2005-12-01 10:18 ` [PATCH 05/12] mm: balance slab aging Wu Fengguang
2005-12-01 10:18 ` [PATCH 06/12] mm: balance active/inactive list scan rates Wu Fengguang
2005-12-01 11:39   ` Peter Zijlstra
2005-12-01 10:18 ` [PATCH 07/12] mm: remove unnecessary variable and loop Wu Fengguang
2005-12-01 10:18 ` [PATCH 08/12] mm: remove swap_cluster_max from scan_control Wu Fengguang
2005-12-01 10:18 ` [PATCH 09/12] mm: accumulate sc.nr_scanned/sc.nr_reclaimed Wu Fengguang
2005-12-01 10:18 ` [PATCH 10/12] mm: merge sc.may_writepage and sc.may_swap into sc.flags Wu Fengguang
2005-12-01 10:18 ` [PATCH 11/12] mm: add page reclaim debug traces Wu Fengguang
2005-12-01 10:18 ` [PATCH 12/12] mm: fix minor scan count bugs Wu Fengguang

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