Re: [PATCH 05/15] readahead: limit readahead size for small memorysystems

[Rik van Riel]

On 02/23/2010 10:10 PM, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> When lifting the default readahead size from 128KB to 512KB,
> make sure it won't add memory pressure to small memory systems.
>
> For read-ahead, the memory pressure is mainly readahead buffers consumed
> by too many concurrent streams. The context readahead can adapt
> readahead size to thrashing threshold well.  So in principle we don't
> need to adapt the default _max_ read-ahead size to memory pressure.
>
> For read-around, the memory pressure is mainly read-around misses on
> executables/libraries. Which could be reduced by scaling down
> read-around size on fast "reclaim passes".
>
> This patch presents a straightforward solution: to limit default
> readahead size proportional to available system memory, ie.
>                  512MB mem =>  512KB readahead size
>                  128MB mem =>  128KB readahead size
>                   32MB mem =>   32KB readahead size (minimal)
>
> Strictly speaking, only read-around size has to be limited.  However we
> don't bother to seperate read-around size from read-ahead size for now.
>
> CC: Matt Mackall<mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang<fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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