Re: [RFC PATCH 00/27] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v2

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Feb 23 2016 - 12:15:51 EST

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On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, Mel Gorman wrote:

> Conceptually, moving to node LRUs should be easier to understand. The
> page allocator plays fewer tricks to game reclaim and reclaim behaves
> similarly on all nodes.

I think this is a good way to simplify reclaim and limit the nasty effects
of zones a bit. It probably would allow us to long term rely less on
zones.

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