linux-kernel - Re: Over-eager swapping

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Message-ID: <20100819051610.GI28417@balbir.in.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:46:10 +0530
From:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Chris Webb <chris@...chsys.com>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: Over-eager swapping

* Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org> [2010-08-18 11:13:03]:

> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Chris Webb wrote:
> 
> > > != 0.  And even then, zone reclaim should only reclaim file pages, not
> > > anon.  In theory...
> >
> > Hi. This is zero on all our machines:
> >
> > # sysctl vm.zone_reclaim_mode
> > vm.zone_reclaim_mode = 0
> 
> Set it to 1.
>

Isn't that bad in terms of how we treat the cost of remote node
allocations? Is local zone_reclaim() always a good thing or is it
something for chris to try and see if that helps his situation?

-- 
	Three Cheers,
	Balbir
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