linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] page reclaim throttle take2

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Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:45:18 +0900
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] page reclaim throttle take2

Hi

> One more thing, I would request you to add default heuristics (number of
> reclaimers), based on the number of cpus in the system. Letting people tuning it
> is fine, but defaults should be related to number of cpus, nodes and zones on
> the system. Zones can be reaped in parallel per node and cpus allow threads to
> run in parallel. So please use that to come up with good defaults, instead of a
> number like "3".

I don't think so.
all modern many cpu machine stand on NUMA.
it mean following,
 - if cpu increases, then zone increases, too.

if default value increase by #cpus, lock contension dramatically increase
on large numa.

Have I overlooked anything?


and, (but) i afraid to 3 is too small value.
if you have another test result on large machine, please show me.

- kosaki


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