linux-kernel - [PATCH 35/40] autonuma: boost khugepaged scanning rate

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Message-Id: <1340888180-15355-36-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:56:15 +0200
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
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Subject: [PATCH 35/40] autonuma: boost khugepaged scanning rate

Until THP native migration is implemented it's safer to boost
khugepaged scanning rate because all memory migration are splitting
the hugepages. So the regular rate of scanning becomes too low when
lots of memory is migrated.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 4fcdaf7..bcaa8ac 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -573,6 +573,14 @@ static int __init hugepage_init(void)
 
 	set_recommended_min_free_kbytes();
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_AUTONUMA
+	/* Hack, remove after THP native migration */
+	if (num_possible_nodes() > 1) {
+		khugepaged_scan_sleep_millisecs = 100;
+		khugepaged_alloc_sleep_millisecs = 10000;
+	}
+#endif
+
 	return 0;
 out:
 	hugepage_exit_sysfs(hugepage_kobj);
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