[PATCH] powerpc: Set a smaller value for RECLAIM_DISTANCE to enable zone reclaim

Christoph Lameter cl at linux-foundation.org
Tue Mar 2 02:19:15 EST 2010


On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Mel Gorman wrote:

> Christoph, how feasible would it be to allow parallel reclaimers in
> __zone_reclaim() that back off at a rate depending on the number of
> reclaimers?

Not too hard. Zone locking is there but there may be a lot of bouncing
cachelines if you run it concurrently.





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