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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 21:15:33 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> To: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/14] vmscan: Do not writeback pages in direct reclaim On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 01:24:58AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > What I have now is direct writeback for anon files. For files be it from > kswapd or direct reclaim, I kick writeback pre-emptively by an amount based > on the dirty pages encountered because monitoring from systemtap indicated > that we were getting a large percentage of the dirty file pages at the end > of the LRU lists (bad). Initial tests show that page reclaim writeback is > reduced from kswapd by 97% with this sort of pre-emptive kicking of flusher > threads based on these figures from sysbench. That sounds like yet another bad aid to me. Instead it would be much better to not have so many file pages at the end of LRU by tuning the flusher threads and VM better. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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