From 27f10907b7cca57df5e2a9c94c14354dd1b7879d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Blanchard Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:29:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/numa: Set a smaller value for RECLAIM_DISTANCE to enable zone reclaim I noticed /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode was 0 on a ppc64 NUMA box. It gets enabled via this: /* * If another node is sufficiently far away then it is better * to reclaim pages in a zone before going off node. */ if (distance > RECLAIM_DISTANCE) zone_reclaim_mode = 1; Since we use the default value of 20 for REMOTE_DISTANCE and 20 for RECLAIM_DISTANCE it never kicks in. The local to remote bandwidth ratios can be quite large on System p machines so it makes sense for us to reclaim clean pagecache locally before going off node. The patch below sets a smaller value for RECLAIM_DISTANCE and thus enables zone reclaim. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h index 8eaec310a25b..a7d769491555 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h @@ -8,6 +8,16 @@ struct device_node; #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA +/* + * Before going off node we want the VM to try and reclaim from the local + * node. It does this if the remote distance is larger than RECLAIM_DISTANCE. + * With the default REMOTE_DISTANCE of 20 and the default RECLAIM_DISTANCE of + * 20, we never reclaim and go off node straight away. + * + * To fix this we choose a smaller value of RECLAIM_DISTANCE. + */ +#define RECLAIM_DISTANCE 10 + #include static inline int cpu_to_node(int cpu) -- 2.39.5