Re: [PATCH 00/34] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v9

2016-08-19 Thread Mel Gorman
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 05:32:59PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 03:53:59PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > Compaction is not the same as LRU management. > > Sure but compaction is invoked by reclaim and if reclaim is node-wide, > it makes more sense if compaction would be

Re: [PATCH 00/34] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v9

2016-08-19 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 03:53:59PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > Compaction is not the same as LRU management. Sure but compaction is invoked by reclaim and if reclaim is node-wide, it makes more sense if compaction would be node-wide as well. Otherwise what you compact? Just the higher zone, or all

Re: [PATCH 00/34] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v9

2016-08-19 Thread Mel Gorman
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 03:12:00PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Hello Mel, > > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 10:34:36AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > Minor changes this time > > > > Changelog since v8 > > This is the latest version of a series that moves LRUs from the zones to > > I'm afraid this i

Re: [PATCH 00/34] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v9

2016-08-19 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 03:23:20PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > What's that? Never head of this before, but sounds scary :) I thought > that zone_reclaim itself was rather discouraged nowadays, not a big > candidate for further improvement.,, It's some fix that I tried to push upstream but wa

Re: [PATCH 00/34] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v9

2016-08-19 Thread Vlastimil Babka
On 08/19/2016 03:12 PM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Hello Mel, Hi Andrea, On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 10:34:36AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: Minor changes this time Changelog since v8 This is the latest version of a series that moves LRUs from the zones to I'm afraid this is a bit incomplete... I h

Re: [PATCH 00/34] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v9

2016-08-19 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
Hello Mel, On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 10:34:36AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > Minor changes this time > > Changelog since v8 > This is the latest version of a series that moves LRUs from the zones to I'm afraid this is a bit incomplete... I had troubles in rebasing the compaction-enabled zone_reclai

[PATCH 00/34] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v9

2016-07-08 Thread Mel Gorman
Minor changes this time Changelog since v8 o Cosmetic cleanups to comments o Calculate node vmstat threshold based on the largest zone in the node o Align retry checks with decisions made by the OOM killer o Avoid tricks with -1 and kswapd_classzone_idx o More consistent handling of buffer_heads_o