linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] mm: scale kswapd watermarks in proportion to memory

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Date:	Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:36:33 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: scale kswapd watermarks in proportion to memory

On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 15:33 -0800, Johannes Weiner wrote:

> Beyond 1G of memory, this will produce bigger watermark steps than 

Is that supposed to be beyond 16GB?

> the
> current formula in default settings. Ensure that the new formula
> never
> chooses steps smaller than that, i.e. 25% of the emergency reserve.
> 
> On a 140G machine, this raises the default watermark steps - the
> distance between min and low, and low and high - from 16M to 143M.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>

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