Re: [PATCH] low order lumpy reclaim also should usePAGEOUT_IO_SYNC.

[Minchan Kim]

Hi, Kosaki-san. 

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:22:27 +0900 (JST)
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH] low order lumpy reclaim also should use PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC.
> 
> commit 33c120ed2843090e2bd316de1588b8bf8b96cbde (more aggressively use lumpy reclaim)
> change lumpy reclaim using condition. but it isn't enough change.
> 
> lumpy reclaim don't only mean isolate neighber page, but also do pageout as synchronous.
> this patch does it.

I agree. 

Andi added  synchronous lumpy reclaim with c661b078fd62abe06fd11fab4ac5e4eeafe26b6d.
At that time, lumpy reclaim is not agressive. 
His intension is just for high-order users.(above PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER). 

After some time, Rik added aggressive lumpy reclaim with 33c120ed2843090e2bd316de1588b8bf8b96cbde.
His intension is that do lumpy reclaim when high-order users and trouble getting a small set of contiguous pages. 

So we also have to add synchronous pageout for small set of contiguous pages. 
Nice catch!. 

Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <Minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>

BTW, Do you have any number ? 

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Minchan Kim
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