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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>
Cc: rohit.seth@intel.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] earlier allocation of order 0 pages from pcp in __alloc_pages
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:11:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050929161118.27f9f1eb.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <719460000.1128034108@[10.10.2.4]>

"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org> wrote:
>
> It looks like we're now dropping into direct reclaim as the first thing
> in __alloc_pages before even trying to kick off kswapd. When the hell
> did that start? Or is that only meant to trigger if we're already below
> the low watermark level?

That's all the numa goop which Martin Hicks added.  It's all disabled if
z->reclaim_pages is zero (it is).  However we could be testing that flag a
bit earlier, I think.

And yeah, some de-spaghettification would be nice.  Certainly before adding
more logic.

Martin, should we take out the early zone reclaim logic?  It's all
unreachable at present anyway.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-29 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-29 22:01 Seth, Rohit
2005-09-29 22:36 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-30  1:05   ` Rohit Seth
2005-09-29 22:48 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-09-29 23:11   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-09-30  1:58     ` Rohit Seth
2005-09-30 12:30     ` Martin Hicks
2005-09-30  1:32   ` Rohit Seth
2005-09-30  1:32     ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-09-29 22:50 ` Dave Hansen
2005-09-30  1:10   ` Rohit Seth

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