Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: vmscan: Obey proportional scanning requirements for kswapd

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sun Mar 17 2013 - 10:39:44 EST


Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> writes:
> +
> + /*
> + * For direct reclaim, reclaim the number of pages requested. Less
> + * care is taken to ensure that scanning for each LRU is properly
> + * proportional. This is unfortunate and is improper aging but
> + * minimises the amount of time a process is stalled.
> + */
> + if (!current_is_kswapd()) {
> + if (nr_reclaimed >= nr_to_reclaim) {
> + for_each_evictable_lru(l)

Don't we need some NUMA awareness here?
Similar below.

-Andi

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