Re: [PATCH] VM: add vm.free_node_memory sysctl

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:24:40AM -0400, Martin Hicks wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 04:15:29PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:56:46AM -0400, Martin Hicks wrote:
> > > 
> > > Here's the promised sysctl to dump a node's pagecache.  Please review!
> > > 
> > > This patch depends on the zone reclaim atomic ops cleanup:
> > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=112307646306476&w=2
> > 
> > Doesn't numactl --bind=node memhog nodesize-someslack do the same?
> > 
> > It just might kick in the oom killer if someslack is too small
> > or someone has unfreeable data there. But then there should be 
> > already an sysctl to turn that one off.
> 
> Doesn't the memhog hack also cause the machine to swap a lot?  The

Hack? - compared to your "solutions" it looks very clean to me.

> zone_reclaim() path doesn't let the memory reclaim code swap.

reclaim with bound policy should only swap on the bound nodemask
(or at least it did when I originally implemented NUMA policy) 

-Andi
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