Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Configurable fair allocation zone policy v2r6

[Zlatko Calusic]

On 13.12.2013 15:10, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Kicked this another bit today. It's still a bit half-baked but it restores
> the historical performance and leaves the door open at the end for playing
> nice with distributing file pages between nodes. Finishing this series
> depends on whether we are going to make the remote node behaviour of the
> fair zone allocation policy configurable or redefine MPOL_LOCAL. I'm in
> favour of the configurable option because the default can be redefined and
> tested while giving users a "compat" mode if we discover the new default
> behaviour sucks for some workload.

I'll start a 5-day test of this patchset in a few hours, unless you can 
send an updated one in the meantime. I intend to test it on a rather 
boring 4GB x86_64 machine that before Johannes' work had lots of trouble 
balancing zones. Would you recommend to use the default settings, i.e. 
don't mess with tunables at this point?

Regards,
--
Zlatko

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