Re: [PATCH 1/3] Reintroduce zone_reclaim_interval for when zone_reclaim()scans and fails to avoid CPU spinning at 100% on NUMA

[Rik van Riel]

Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:31:09AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Mel Gorman wrote:
> >
> > > The scanning occurs because zone_reclaim() cannot tell
> > > in advance the scan is pointless because the counters do not distinguish
> > > between pagecache pages backed by disk and by RAM. 
> > Yes it can.  Since 2.6.27, filesystem backed and swap/ram backed
> > pages have been living on separate LRU lists. 
>
> Yes, they're on separate LRU lists but they are not the only pages on those
> lists. The tmpfs pages are mixed in together with anonymous pages so we
> cannot use NR_*_ANON.
>
> Look at patch 2 and where I introduced;

I have to admit I did not read patches 2 and 3 before
replying to the (strange looking, at the time) text
above patch 1.

With that logic from patch 2 in place, patch 1 makes
perfect sense.

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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