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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] tracing, vmscan: Add trace event when a page is
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From: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
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On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 12:17 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> This patch adds a trace event for when page reclaim queues a page for IO and
> records whether it is synchronous or asynchronous. Excessive synchronous
> IO for a process can result in noticeable stalls during direct reclaim.
> Excessive IO from page reclaim may indicate that the system is seriously
> under provisioned for the amount of dirty pages that exist.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>

Acked-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>



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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/12] tracing, vmscan: Add trace event when a page is
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On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 12:17 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> This patch adds a trace event for when page reclaim queues a page for IO and
> records whether it is synchronous or asynchronous. Excessive synchronous
> IO for a process can result in noticeable stalls during direct reclaim.
> Excessive IO from page reclaim may indicate that the system is seriously
> under provisioned for the amount of dirty pages that exist.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>

Acked-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>


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