From 2a11ff06d7d12be5d1bbcf592fff649b45ac2388 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lameter Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 03:05:33 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] zone_reclaim: configurable off node allocation period. Currently the zone_reclaim code has a fixed window of 30 seconds of off node allocations should a local zone have no unused pagecache pages left. Reclaim will be attempted again after this timeout period to avoid repeated useless scans for memory. This is also useful to established sufficiently large off node allocation chunks to relieve the local node. It may be beneficial to adjust that time period for some special situations. For example if memory use was exceeding node capacity one may want to give up for longer periods of time. If memory spikes intermittendly then one may want to shorten the time period to reduce the number of off node allocations. This patch allows just that.... Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/sysctl.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/sysctl.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sysctl.h index 8352a7c..32a4139 100644 --- a/include/linux/sysctl.h +++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h @@ -182,7 +182,8 @@ enum VM_SWAP_TOKEN_TIMEOUT=28, /* default time for token time out */ VM_DROP_PAGECACHE=29, /* int: nuke lots of pagecache */ VM_PERCPU_PAGELIST_FRACTION=30,/* int: fraction of pages in each percpu_pagelist */ - VM_ZONE_RECLAIM_MODE=31,/* reclaim local zone memory before going off node */ + VM_ZONE_RECLAIM_MODE=31, /* reclaim local zone memory before going off node */ + VM_ZONE_RECLAIM_INTERVAL=32, /* time period to wait after reclaim failure */ }; -- cgit v1.1