On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> I think that simpler solution of this problem is to use only potentially
> reclaimable pages (that is, active, inactive, and free pages) to
> calculate writeout threshold. This way there is no need to maintain
> counters for unreclaimable pages. Below
Christoph Lameter writes:
> Consider unreclaimable pages during dirty limit calculation
>
> Tracking unreclaimable pages helps us to calculate the dirty ratio
> the right way. If a large number of unreclaimable pages are allocated
> (through the slab or through huge pages) then write
Christoph Lameter writes:
Consider unreclaimable pages during dirty limit calculation
Tracking unreclaimable pages helps us to calculate the dirty ratio
the right way. If a large number of unreclaimable pages are allocated
(through the slab or through huge pages) then write throttling
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Nikita Danilov wrote:
I think that simpler solution of this problem is to use only potentially
reclaimable pages (that is, active, inactive, and free pages) to
calculate writeout threshold. This way there is no need to maintain
counters for unreclaimable pages. Below is a
Consider unreclaimable pages during dirty limit calculation
Tracking unreclaimable pages helps us to calculate the dirty ratio
the right way. If a large number of unreclaimable pages are allocated
(through the slab or through huge pages) then write throttling will
no longer work since the limit
Consider unreclaimable pages during dirty limit calculation
Tracking unreclaimable pages helps us to calculate the dirty ratio
the right way. If a large number of unreclaimable pages are allocated
(through the slab or through huge pages) then write throttling will
no longer work since the limit
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