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

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Message-ID: <20080227103055.2267b50c@bree.surriel.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:30:55 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] page reclaim throttle take2

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:19:08 -0800 (PST)
David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:

> My suggestion is merely to make the number of concurrent page reclaim 
> threads be a function of how many online cpus there are.

The more CPUs there are, the more lock contention you want?

Somehow that seems backwards :)

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