Re: [PATCH 3/4] Count the number of times zone_reclaim() scans andfails

[Rik van Riel]

Mel Gorman wrote:
> On NUMA machines, the administrator can configure zone_reclaim_mode that
> is a more targetted form of direct reclaim. On machines with large NUMA
> distances for example, a zone_reclaim_mode defaults to 1 meaning that clean
> unmapped pages will be reclaimed if the zone watermarks are not being met.
>
> There is a heuristic that determines if the scan is worthwhile but it is
> possible that the heuristic will fail and the CPU gets tied up scanning
> uselessly. Detecting the situation requires some guesswork and experimentation
> so this patch adds a counter "zreclaim_failed" to /proc/vmstat. If during
> high CPU utilisation this counter is increasing rapidly, then the resolution
> to the problem may be to set /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode to 0.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>

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

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