Christoph Lameter
9614634fe6
[PATCH] ZVC/zone_reclaim: Leave 1% of unmapped pagecache pages for file I/O
...
It turns out that it is advantageous to leave a small portion of unmapped file
backed pages if all of a zone's pages (or almost all pages) are allocated and
so the page allocator has to go off-node.
This allows recently used file I/O buffers to stay on the node and
reduces the times that zone reclaim is invoked if file I/O occurs
when we run out of memory in a zone.
The problem is that zone reclaim runs too frequently when the page cache is
used for file I/O (read write and therefore unmapped pages!) alone and we have
almost all pages of the zone allocated. Zone reclaim may remove 32 unmapped
pages. File I/O will use these pages for the next read/write requests and the
unmapped pages increase. After the zone has filled up again zone reclaim will
remove it again after only 32 pages. This cycle is too inefficient and there
are potentially too many zone reclaim cycles.
With the 1% boundary we may still remove all unmapped pages for file I/O in
zone reclaim pass. However. it will take a large number of read and writes
to get back to 1% again where we trigger zone reclaim again.
The zone reclaim 2.6.16/17 does not show this behavior because we have a 30
second timeout.
[akpm@osdl.org: rename the /proc file and the variable]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:26:59 -07:00
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irq
[PATCH] genirq:fixup missing SA_PERCPU replacement
2006-07-02 17:29:22 -07:00
power
remove obsolete swsusp_encrypt
2006-06-30 18:59:59 +02:00
time
[PATCH] time: rename clocksource functions
2006-06-26 09:58:21 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
audit.c
[NETLINK]: Encapsulate eff_cap usage within security framework.
2006-06-29 16:57:55 -07:00
audit.h
[PATCH] add rule filterkey
2006-07-01 05:43:06 -04:00
auditfilter.c
[PATCH] audit syscall classes
2006-07-01 07:44:10 -04:00
auditsc.c
[PATCH] audit: support for object context filters
2006-07-01 05:44:19 -04:00
capability.c
compat.c
[PATCH] N32 sigset and __COMPAT_ENDIAN_SWAP__
2006-06-25 10:01:15 -07:00
configs.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
cpu.c
[PATCH] cpu hotplug: make [un]register_cpu_notifier init time only
2006-06-27 17:32:41 -07:00
cpuset.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
exit.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
extable.c
fork.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
futex.c
[PATCH] pi-futex: futex_wake() lockup fix
2006-07-01 09:55:57 -07:00
futex_compat.c
[PATCH] pi-futex: futex_lock_pi/futex_unlock_pi support
2006-06-27 17:32:47 -07:00
hrtimer.c
[PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert initdata patch submitted for 2.6.17
2006-06-27 17:32:41 -07:00
itimer.c
kallsyms.c
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c
[POWERPC] Add the use of the firmware soft-reset-nmi to kdump.
2006-06-28 15:18:52 +10:00
kfifo.c
kmod.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
kprobes.c
[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain
2006-06-26 09:58:22 -07:00
ksysfs.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
kthread.c
[PATCH] kthread: move kernel-doc and put it into DocBook
2006-06-25 10:01:24 -07:00
Makefile
[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex tester
2006-06-27 17:32:47 -07:00
module.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
mutex-debug.c
[PATCH] poison: add & use more constants
2006-06-27 17:32:38 -07:00
mutex-debug.h
[PATCH] work around ppc64 bootup bug by making mutex-debugging save/restore irqs
2006-06-26 09:58:16 -07:00
mutex.c
[PATCH] work around ppc64 bootup bug by making mutex-debugging save/restore irqs
2006-06-26 09:58:16 -07:00
mutex.h
[PATCH] work around ppc64 bootup bug by making mutex-debugging save/restore irqs
2006-06-26 09:58:16 -07:00
panic.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
params.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
pid.c
posix-cpu-timers.c
posix-timers.c
printk.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
profile.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
ptrace.c
[PATCH] coredump: kill ptrace related stuff
2006-06-26 09:58:27 -07:00
rcupdate.c
[PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert initdata patch submitted for 2.6.17
2006-06-27 17:32:41 -07:00
rcutorture.c
[PATCH] rcutorture: add call_rcu_bh() operations
2006-06-27 17:32:40 -07:00
relay.c
resource.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
rtmutex-debug.c
[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex debug
2006-06-27 17:32:47 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.h
[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex debug
2006-06-27 17:32:47 -07:00
rtmutex-tester.c
[PATCH] rtmutex: Modify rtmutex-tester to test the setscheduler propagation
2006-06-27 17:32:47 -07:00
rtmutex.c
[PATCH] rtmutex: Propagate priority settings into PI lock chains
2006-06-27 17:32:48 -07:00
rtmutex.h
[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex core
2006-06-27 17:32:47 -07:00
rtmutex_common.h
[PATCH] pi-futex: futex_lock_pi/futex_unlock_pi support
2006-06-27 17:32:47 -07:00
sched.c
[PATCH] cond_resched() fix
2006-06-30 11:25:38 -07:00
seccomp.c
signal.c
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
2006-06-30 15:39:30 -07:00
softirq.c
[PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert initdata patch submitted for 2.6.17
2006-06-27 17:32:41 -07:00
softlockup.c
[PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert initdata patch submitted for 2.6.17
2006-06-27 17:32:41 -07:00
spinlock.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
stop_machine.c
[PATCH] kthread: convert stop_machine into a kthread
2006-06-25 10:01:22 -07:00
sys.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
sys_ni.c
[PATCH] sys_move_pages: 32bit support (i386, x86_64)
2006-06-23 07:42:53 -07:00
sysctl.c
[PATCH] ZVC/zone_reclaim: Leave 1% of unmapped pagecache pages for file I/O
2006-07-03 15:26:59 -07:00
time.c
[PATCH] Time: Introduce arch generic time accessors
2006-06-26 09:58:20 -07:00
timer.c
[PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert initdata patch submitted for 2.6.17
2006-06-27 17:32:41 -07:00
uid16.c
unwind.c
[PATCH] x86_64: allow unwinder to build without module support
2006-06-26 10:48:18 -07:00
user.c
[PATCH] selinux: add hooks for key subsystem
2006-06-22 15:05:55 -07:00
wait.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
workqueue.c
[PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert init patch submitted for 2.6.17
2006-06-27 17:32:40 -07:00