On Thursday 06 April 2006 14:36, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Thursday 06 April 2006 13:40, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Con Kolivas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:55, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 06 April 2006 12:43, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > > Con Kolivas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > > It is possible with a low enough lowmem_reserve ratio to make
> > > > > > zone_watermark_ok fail repeatedly if the lower_zone is small
> > > > > > enough.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is that actually a problem?
> > > >
> > > > Every single call to get_page_from_freelist will call on zone
> > > > reclaim. It seems a problem to me if every call to __alloc_pages will
> > > > do that?
> > >
> > > every call to __alloc_pages of that zone I mean
> >
> > One would need to check with the NUMA guys. zone_reclaim() has a
> > (lame-looking) timer in there to prevent it from doing too much work.
> >
> > That, or I'm missing something. This problem wasn't particularly well
> > described, sorry.
>
> Ah ok. This all came about because I'm trying to honour the lowmem_reserve
> better in swap_prefetch at Nick's request. It's hard to honour a watermark
> that on some configurations is never reached.
Forget that. If the numa people don't care about it I shouldn't touch it. I
thought I was doing something helpful at the source but got no response from
Nick or the the other numa_ids out there so they obviously don't care. I'll
tackle it differently in swap prefetch.
Cheers,
Con
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