On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:12:31PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote: > e986850 "mm, vmscan: only evict file pages when we have plenty" makes > a point of not going for anonymous memory while there is still enough > inactive cache around. > > The check was added only for global reclaim, but it is just as useful > to reduce swapping in memory cgroup reclaim: > > 200M-memcg-defconfig-j2 > > vanilla patched > Real time 454.06 ( +0.00%) 453.71 ( -0.08%) > User time 668.57 ( +0.00%) 668.73 ( +0.02%) > System time 128.92 ( +0.00%) 129.53 ( +0.46%) > Swap in 1246.80 ( +0.00%) 814.40 ( -34.65%) > Swap out 1198.90 ( +0.00%) 827.00 ( -30.99%) > Pages allocated 16431288.10 ( +0.00%) 16434035.30 ( +0.02%) > Major faults 681.50 ( +0.00%) 593.70 ( -12.86%) > THP faults 237.20 ( +0.00%) 242.40 ( +2.18%) > THP collapse 241.20 ( +0.00%) 248.50 ( +3.01%) > THP splits 157.30 ( +0.00%) 161.40 ( +2.59%) > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
