linux/arch/ia64
Mel Gorman 4f9b16a647 mm: disable zone_reclaim_mode by default
When it was introduced, zone_reclaim_mode made sense as NUMA distances
punished and workloads were generally partitioned to fit into a NUMA
node.  NUMA machines are now common but few of the workloads are
NUMA-aware and it's routine to see major performance degradation due to
zone_reclaim_mode being enabled but relatively few can identify the
problem.

Those that require zone_reclaim_mode are likely to be able to detect
when it needs to be enabled and tune appropriately so lets have a
sensible default for the bulk of users.

This patch (of 2):

zone_reclaim_mode causes processes to prefer reclaiming memory from
local node instead of spilling over to other nodes.  This made sense
initially when NUMA machines were almost exclusively HPC and the
workload was partitioned into nodes.  The NUMA penalties were
sufficiently high to justify reclaiming the memory.  On current machines
and workloads it is often the case that zone_reclaim_mode destroys
performance but not all users know how to detect this.  Favour the
common case and disable it by default.  Users that are sophisticated
enough to know they need zone_reclaim_mode will detect it.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:53:59 -07:00
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configs USB: delete CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS from defconfig 2014-05-27 16:07:13 -07:00
dig Disintegrate asm/system.h for IA64 2012-03-28 18:30:02 +01:00
hp PCI changes for the v3.15 merge window: 2014-04-01 15:14:04 -07:00
include mm: disable zone_reclaim_mode by default 2014-06-04 16:53:59 -07:00
kernel Merge branches 'acpi-processor' and 'acpi-pad' 2014-06-03 23:09:41 +02:00
kvm Small workaround for a rare, but annoying, erratum 2014-04-16 11:22:45 -07:00
lib Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
mm hugetlb: restrict hugepage_migration_support() to x86_64 2014-06-04 16:53:51 -07:00
oprofile Disintegrate asm/system.h for IA64 2012-03-28 18:30:02 +01:00
pci ia64/PCI: Use pci_is_bridge() to simplify code 2014-05-27 14:57:16 -06:00
scripts scripts: change scripts to use system python instead of env 2010-02-02 14:33:56 +01:00
sn ia64: Validate online cpus in irq_set_affinity() callbacks 2014-03-12 13:07:40 +01:00
uv ia64: change to new flag variables 2011-03-17 14:02:56 +01:00
Kconfig Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-04-12 12:38:53 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile ia64/xen: Remove Xen support for ia64 2013-12-10 16:11:07 -08:00
install.sh kbuild: use INSTALLKERNEL to select customized installkernel script 2009-09-20 12:18:14 +02:00
module.lds