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| author | Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> | 2006-06-30 01:55:37 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-06-30 11:25:35 -0700 |
| commit | 34aa1330f9b3c5783d269851d467326525207422 (patch) | |
| tree | a47db4fa53527ea937dee9e763267ab21865ce11 /Documentation/sysctl | |
| parent | f3dbd34460ff54962d3e3244b6bcb7f5295356e6 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-34aa1330f9b3c5783d269851d467326525207422.tar.gz lwn-34aa1330f9b3c5783d269851d467326525207422.zip | |
[PATCH] zoned vm counters: zone_reclaim: remove /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_interval
The zone_reclaim_interval was necessary because we were not able to determine
how many unmapped pages exist in a zone. Therefore we had to scan in
intervals to figure out if any pages were unmapped.
With the zoned counters and NR_ANON_PAGES we now know the number of pagecache
pages and the number of mapped pages in a zone. So we can simply skip the
reclaim if there is an insufficient number of unmapped pages. We use
SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX as the boundary.
Drop all support for /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_interval.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 2dc246af4885..86754eb390da 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - block_dump - drop-caches - zone_reclaim_mode -- zone_reclaim_interval - panic_on_oom ============================================================== @@ -167,18 +166,6 @@ use of files and builds up large slab caches. However, the slab shrink operation is global, may take a long time and free slabs in all nodes of the system. -================================================================ - -zone_reclaim_interval: - -The time allowed for off node allocations after zone reclaim -has failed to reclaim enough pages to allow a local allocation. - -Time is set in seconds and set by default to 30 seconds. - -Reduce the interval if undesired off node allocations occur. However, too -frequent scans will have a negative impact onoff node allocation performance. - ============================================================= panic_on_oom |