linux-kernel - Re: [resend][PATCH] mm: increase RECLAIM

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Message-Id: <20101012104701.AD2B.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:55:51 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Rob Mueller <robm@...tmail.fm>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bron Gondwana <brong@...tmail.fm>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [resend][PATCH] mm: increase RECLAIM_DISTANCE to 30

Hi

> > -#define RECLAIM_DISTANCE 20
> > +#define RECLAIM_DISTANCE 30
> >  #endif
> >  #ifndef PENALTY_FOR_NODE_WITH_CPUS
> >  #define PENALTY_FOR_NODE_WITH_CPUS	(1)
> 
> I am not sure if this makes sense, since RECLAIM_DISTANCE is supposed
> to be a hardware parameter. Could you please help clarify what the
> access latency of a node with RECLAIM_DISTANCE 20 to that of a node
> with RECLAIM_DISTANCE 30 is? Has the hardware definition of reclaim
> distance changed?

Recently, Intel/AMD implemented QPI/Hypertransport on their cpus. Then, 
commodity server's average node distance dramatically changed and our threshold
became typical case unfit.

So, my intention is, commodity server continue to don't use zone_reclaim_mode.
because their workload haven't been changed. 

30 itself don't have strong meaning.

> I suspect the side effect is the zone_reclaim_mode is not set to 1 on
> bootup for the 2-4 socket machines you mention, which results in
> better VM behaviour?

It depend on workload. If you are using file/web/emal server (i.e. most common case),
it's better. but HPC workload don't works so fine.



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