Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jan 2000 17:05:41 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [RFT] [PATCH] memory zone balancing |
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On Mon, 3 Jan 100, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:
> Okay, here is a reworked version. Note that this version does not > do per-zone balancing, since experiments show that we need to tune > per-zone watermarks properly before we can start doing that. I am > working on coming up with a good estimate of per-zone watermarks. > Basically, I am trying to answer the question: if there are d dmapages, > r regular pages and h highmem pages, for a total of d+r+h pages, > what should the watermarks be for each zone?
i think this is pretty much 'type-dependent'. In earlier versions of the zone allocator i added a zone->memory_balanced() function (but removed it later because it first needed the things your patch adds). Then every zone can decide for itself wether it's balanced. Eg. the DMA zone is rather critical and we want to keep it free aggressively (part of that is already achieved by placing it at the end of the zone chain), the highmem zone might not need any balancing at all, the normal zone wants some high/low watermark stuff.
Ingo
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