linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] vmscan: remove all_unreclaimable check from direct reclaim path completely

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Date:	Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:41:25 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] vmscan: remove all_unreclaimable check from direct
 reclaim path completely

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:28 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro
> <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>>> For example, In 4G desktop system.
>>> 32M full scanning and fail to reclaim a page.
>>> It's under 1% coverage.
>>
>> ?? I'm sorry. I haven't catch it.
>> Where 32M come from?
>
> (1<<12) * 4K + (1<<11) + 4K + .. (1 << 0) + 4K in shrink_zones.

Stupid me.
Sorry. my calculation is totally wrong.

Your explanation was perfect
Okay. I don't have any objection to your solution.



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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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