Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752979Ab0DZMnd (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:43:33 -0400 Received: from mtagate2.uk.ibm.com ([194.196.100.162]:49537 "EHLO mtagate2.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750991Ab0DZMnc (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:43:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4BD58A6C.6040104@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:43:24 +0200 From: Christian Ehrhardt User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100411) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: KOSAKI Motohiro CC: Rik van Riel , Johannes Weiner , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , gregkh@novell.com, Mel Gorman , linux-mm@kvack.org, Chris Mason , Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Corrado Zoccolo Subject: Re: Subject: [PATCH][RFC] mm: make working set portion that is protected tunable v2 References: <20100322235053.GD9590@csn.ul.ie> <20100419214412.GB5336@cmpxchg.org> <4BCD55DA.2020000@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100420153202.GC5336@cmpxchg.org> <4BCDE2F0.3010009@redhat.com> <4BCE7DD1.70900@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4BCEAAC6.7070602@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4BCEFB4C.1070206@redhat.com> <4BCFEAD0.4010708@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4BD57213.7060207@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2311 Lines: 59 KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > Hi > > I've quick reviewed your patch. but unfortunately I can't write my > reviewed-by sign. Not a problem, atm I'm happy about any review and comment :-) >> Subject: [PATCH][RFC] mm: make working set portion that is protected tunable v2 >> From: Christian Ehrhardt >> >> *updates in v2* >> - use do_div >> >> This patch creates a knob to help users that have workloads suffering from the >> fix 1:1 active inactive ratio brought into the kernel by "56e49d21 vmscan: >> evict use-once pages first". >> It also provides the tuning mechanisms for other users that want an even bigger >> working set to be protected. > > We certainly need no knob. because typical desktop users use various > application, > various workload. then, the knob doesn't help them. Briefly - We had discussed non desktop scenarios where like a day load that builds up the working set to 50% and a nightly backup job which then is unable to use that protected 50% when sequentially reading a lot of disks and due to that doesn't finish before morning. The knob should help those people that know their system would suffer from this or similar cases to e.g. set the protected ratio smaller or even to zero if wanted. As mentioned before, being able to gain back those protected 50% would be even better - if it can be done in a way not hurting the original intention of protecting them. I personally just don't feel too good knowing that 50% of my memory might hang around unused for many hours while they could be of some use. I absolutely agree with the old intention and see how the patch helped with the latency issue Elladan brought up in the past - but it just looks way too aggressive to protect it "forever" for some server use cases. > Probably, I've missed previous discussion. I'm going to find your previous mail. The discussion ends at http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/22/38 - feel free to click through it. -- Gr?sse / regards, Christian Ehrhardt IBM Linux Technology Center, System z Linux Performance -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/