linux/mm
Christoph Lameter 9eeff2395e [PATCH] Zone reclaim: Reclaim logic
Some bits for zone reclaim exists in 2.6.15 but they are not usable.  This
patch fixes them up, removes unused code and makes zone reclaim usable.

Zone reclaim allows the reclaiming of pages from a zone if the number of
free pages falls below the watermarks even if other zones still have enough
pages available.  Zone reclaim is of particular importance for NUMA
machines.  It can be more beneficial to reclaim a page than taking the
performance penalties that come with allocating a page on a remote zone.

Zone reclaim is enabled if the maximum distance to another node is higher
than RECLAIM_DISTANCE, which may be defined by an arch.  By default
RECLAIM_DISTANCE is 20.  20 is the distance to another node in the same
component (enclosure or motherboard) on IA64.  The meaning of the NUMA
distance information seems to vary by arch.

If zone reclaim is not successful then no further reclaim attempts will
occur for a certain time period (ZONE_RECLAIM_INTERVAL).

This patch was discussed before. See

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113519961504207&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113408418232531&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113389027420032&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113380938612205&w=2

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
..
bootmem.c [PATCH] FRV: Clean up bootmem allocator's page freeing algorithm 2006-01-06 08:33:26 -08:00
fadvise.c [PATCH] fadvise: return ESPIPE on FIFO/pipe 2006-01-08 20:14:00 -08:00
filemap_xip.c [PATCH] replace inode_update_time with file_update_time 2006-01-10 08:01:30 -08:00
filemap.c [PATCH] mm: migration page refcounting fix 2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
filemap.h [PATCH] xip: reduce code duplication 2005-06-24 00:06:41 -07:00
fremap.c VM: add common helper function to create the page tables 2005-11-29 14:03:14 -08:00
highmem.c [PATCH] gfp_t: the rest 2005-10-28 08:16:51 -07:00
hugetlb.c [PATCH] mm: make hugepages obey cpusets. 2006-01-08 20:12:43 -08:00
internal.h [PATCH] FRV: Clean up bootmem allocator's page freeing algorithm 2006-01-06 08:33:26 -08:00
Kconfig [PATCH] Swap Migration V5: Add CONFIG_MIGRATION for page migration support 2006-01-08 20:12:41 -08:00
madvise.c [PATCH] madvise(MADV_REMOVE): remove pages from tmpfs shm backing store 2006-01-06 08:33:22 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] slob: introduce the SLOB allocator 2006-01-08 20:13:41 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c [PATCH] memhotplug: __add_section remove unused pgdat definition 2006-01-06 08:33:21 -08:00
memory.c [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
mempolicy.c [PATCH] Simplify migrate_page_add 2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
mempool.c [PATCH] gfp_t: mm/* (easy parts) 2005-10-28 08:16:47 -07:00
mincore.c [PATCH] freepgt: sys_mincore ignore FIRST_USER_PGD_NR 2005-04-19 13:29:20 -07:00
mlock.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
mmap.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
mprotect.c [PATCH] unpaged: private write VM_RESERVED 2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
mremap.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
msync.c [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
nommu.c [PATCH] NOMMU: Make SYSV IPC SHM use ramfs facilities on NOMMU 2006-01-06 08:33:32 -08:00
oom_kill.c [PATCH] cpuset oom lock fix 2006-01-14 18:27:10 -08:00
page_alloc.c [PATCH] Zone reclaim: Reclaim logic 2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
page_io.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
page-writeback.c [PATCH] mm: dirty_exceeded speedup 2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
pdflush.c [PATCH] Swap Migration V5: PF_SWAPWRITE to allow writing to swap 2006-01-08 20:12:41 -08:00
prio_tree.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
readahead.c [PATCH] add AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE, prepend AOP_ to WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE 2006-01-03 11:45:42 -08:00
rmap.c [PATCH] mm: migration page refcounting fix 2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
shmem.c [PATCH] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policies 2006-01-14 18:27:07 -08:00
slab.c [PATCH] fix/simplify mutex debugging code 2006-01-11 08:14:16 -08:00
slob.c [PATCH] slob: introduce the SLOB allocator 2006-01-08 20:13:41 -08:00
sparse.c [PATCH] Change maxaligned_in_smp alignemnt macros to internodealigned_in_smp macros 2006-01-08 20:13:38 -08:00
swap_state.c [PATCH] SwapMig: add_to_swap() avoid atomic allocations 2006-01-08 20:12:42 -08:00
swap.c [PATCH] mm: migration page refcounting fix 2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
swapfile.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
thrash.c [PATCH] temporarily disable swap token on memory pressure 2005-11-28 14:42:25 -08:00
tiny-shmem.c [PATCH] do_truncate() call fix in tiny-shmem.c 2006-01-12 09:08:49 -08:00
truncate.c [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem 2006-01-09 15:59:24 -08:00
util.c [PATCH] slob: introduce mm/util.c for shared functions 2006-01-08 20:13:41 -08:00
vmalloc.c [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix warnings in vmalloc.c 2005-11-07 07:53:56 -08:00
vmscan.c [PATCH] Zone reclaim: Reclaim logic 2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00