Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:23:04 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 5/8] Make writeout during reclaim cpuset aware |
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On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 January 2007 16:48, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Direct reclaim: cpuset aware writeout > > > > During direct reclaim we traverse down a zonelist and are carefully > > checking each zone if its a member of the active cpuset. But then we call > > pdflush without enforcing the same restrictions. In a larger system this > > may have the effect of a massive amount of pages being dirtied and then > > either > > Is there a reason this can't be just done by node, ignoring the cpusets?
We want to writeout dirty pages that help our situation. Those are located on the nodes of the cpuset. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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