From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
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linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] mm: exclude reserved pages from dirtyable memory
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:21:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E78AF6B.5010502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316526315-16801-2-git-send-email-jweiner@redhat.com>
On 09/20/2011 09:45 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> The amount of dirtyable pages should not include the total number of
> free pages: there is a number of reserved pages that the page
> allocator and kswapd always try to keep free.
>
> The closer (reclaimable pages - dirty pages) is to the number of
> reserved pages, the more likely it becomes for reclaim to run into
> dirty pages:
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner<jweiner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] mm: exclude reserved pages from dirtyable memory
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:21:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E78AF6B.5010502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316526315-16801-2-git-send-email-jweiner@redhat.com>
On 09/20/2011 09:45 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> The amount of dirtyable pages should not include the total number of
> free pages: there is a number of reserved pages that the page
> allocator and kswapd always try to keep free.
>
> The closer (reclaimable pages - dirty pages) is to the number of
> reserved pages, the more likely it becomes for reclaim to run into
> dirty pages:
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner<jweiner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] mm: exclude reserved pages from dirtyable memory
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:21:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E78AF6B.5010502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316526315-16801-2-git-send-email-jweiner@redhat.com>
On 09/20/2011 09:45 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> The amount of dirtyable pages should not include the total number of
> free pages: there is a number of reserved pages that the page
> allocator and kswapd always try to keep free.
>
> The closer (reclaimable pages - dirty pages) is to the number of
> reserved pages, the more likely it becomes for reclaim to run into
> dirty pages:
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner<jweiner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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Thread overview: 117+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-20 13:45 [patch 0/4] 50% faster writing to your USB drive!* Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 13:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 13:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 13:45 ` [patch 1/4] mm: exclude reserved pages from dirtyable memory Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 13:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 13:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 15:21 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2011-09-20 15:21 ` Rik van Riel
2011-09-20 15:21 ` Rik van Riel
2011-09-21 14:04 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-21 14:04 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-21 14:04 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-21 15:03 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-21 15:03 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-21 15:03 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-22 9:03 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-22 9:03 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-22 9:03 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-22 10:54 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-22 10:54 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-22 10:54 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-23 14:38 ` [patch 1/4 v2] " Johannes Weiner
2011-09-23 14:38 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-23 14:38 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-28 4:55 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 4:55 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 4:55 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 7:50 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-28 7:50 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-28 7:50 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-28 18:35 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 18:35 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 18:35 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-20 13:45 ` [patch 2/4] mm: writeback: distribute write pages across allowable zones Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 13:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 13:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 18:36 ` Rik van Riel
2011-09-20 18:36 ` Rik van Riel
2011-09-20 18:36 ` Rik van Riel
2011-09-21 11:04 ` Shaohua Li
2011-09-21 11:04 ` Shaohua Li
2011-09-21 11:04 ` Shaohua Li
2011-09-21 13:35 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-21 13:35 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-21 13:35 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-21 14:30 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-21 14:30 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-21 14:30 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-21 23:02 ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-21 23:02 ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-21 23:02 ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-22 8:52 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-22 8:52 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-22 8:52 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-23 14:41 ` [patch 1/2/4] mm: writeback: cleanups in preparation for per-zone dirty limits Johannes Weiner
2011-09-23 14:41 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-23 14:41 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-28 5:57 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 5:57 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 5:57 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 9:27 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-28 9:27 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-28 9:27 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-23 14:42 ` [patch 2/2/4] mm: try to distribute dirty pages fairly across zones Johannes Weiner
2011-09-23 14:42 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-23 14:42 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-28 5:56 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 5:56 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 5:56 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 7:11 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-28 7:11 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-28 7:11 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-28 18:09 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 18:09 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 18:09 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 9:36 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-28 9:36 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-28 9:36 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-20 13:45 ` [patch 3/4] mm: filemap: pass __GFP_WRITE from grab_cache_page_write_begin() Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 13:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 13:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 14:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-20 14:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-20 14:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-20 18:38 ` Rik van Riel
2011-09-20 18:38 ` Rik van Riel
2011-09-20 18:38 ` Rik van Riel
2011-09-20 18:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-20 18:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-20 18:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-21 14:09 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-21 14:09 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-21 14:09 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 18:40 ` Rik van Riel
2011-09-20 18:40 ` Rik van Riel
2011-09-20 18:40 ` Rik van Riel
2011-09-21 14:34 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-21 14:34 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-21 14:34 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-28 6:02 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 6:02 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 6:02 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-20 13:45 ` [patch 4/4] Btrfs: pass __GFP_WRITE for buffered write page allocations Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 13:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 13:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 13:56 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 13:56 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 13:56 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 14:09 ` Josef Bacik
2011-09-20 14:09 ` Josef Bacik
2011-09-20 14:09 ` Josef Bacik
2011-09-20 14:14 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 14:14 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 14:14 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 18:41 ` Rik van Riel
2011-09-20 18:41 ` Rik van Riel
2011-09-20 18:41 ` Rik van Riel
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