From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755689Ab1KWNf0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:35:26 -0500 Received: from zene.cmpxchg.org ([85.214.230.12]:50162 "EHLO zene.cmpxchg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755634Ab1KWNfW (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:35:22 -0500 From: Johannes Weiner To: Andrew Morton Cc: Mel Gorman , Rik van Riel , Minchan Kim , Michal Hocko , Christoph Hellwig , Wu Fengguang , Dave Chinner , Jan Kara , Shaohua Li , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [patch 0/5] mm: per-zone dirty limits v3-resend Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:34:13 +0100 Message-Id: <1322055258-3254-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.6.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a resend of version 3, rebased to v3.2-rc2. In addition to my own tests - results in 3/5 - Wu Fengguang also ran tests of his own in combination with the IO-less dirty throttling series, the results of which can be found here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/28795 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/69648 Per-zone dirty limits try to distribute page cache pages allocated for writing across zones in proportion to the individual zone sizes, to reduce the likelihood of reclaim having to write back individual pages from the LRU lists in order to make progress. Please consider merging into 3.3. fs/btrfs/file.c | 2 +- include/linux/gfp.h | 4 +- include/linux/mmzone.h | 6 + include/linux/swap.h | 1 + include/linux/writeback.h | 1 + mm/filemap.c | 5 +- mm/page-writeback.c | 290 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- mm/page_alloc.c | 48 ++++++++ 8 files changed, 251 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)