Re: [PATCH] sysctl: vfs_cache_divisor

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:27:40 -0700
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +The default vfs_cache_divisor value is 100 (like percent).  However, for
> +extremely large systems where a value of vfs_cache_pressure of less than
> +1 percent is desirable, using a larger vfs_cache_divisor enables this wanted
> +characteristic.

The one-percent-granularity problem also applies to /proc/sys/vm/*dirty*
and possibly other things.  So any fix we do should be applicable to those
as well.

And I'm not really sure how we should do this.  I do think that we should
change the kernel so these knobs are internally higher-resolution.  So, for
example, we switch all the logic so that instead of these variables
representing 1/100th, they instead represent 1/1000000th, for example.

Then, we change the top-level /proc handler to do the 1/100th <-> 1/1000000th
conversion.  So the rest of the kernel doesn't have to know about it.

The we duplicate all the relevant /proc knobs:

cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
30
cat /proc/sys/vm/hires-dirty_ratio/
300000

Or we do something else ;)
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