linux/arch
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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alpha Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next 2014-06-03 14:00:15 -07:00
arc DeviceTree for 3.16: 2014-06-04 10:02:38 -07:00
arm hugetlb: restrict hugepage_migration_support() to x86_64 2014-06-04 16:53:51 -07:00
arm64 hugetlb: restrict hugepage_migration_support() to x86_64 2014-06-04 16:53:51 -07:00
avr32 Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next 2014-06-03 12:57:53 -07:00
blackfin Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next 2014-06-03 12:57:53 -07:00
c6x DeviceTree for 3.16: 2014-06-04 10:02:38 -07:00
cris Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next 2014-06-03 12:57:53 -07:00
frv Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next 2014-06-03 12:57:53 -07:00
hexagon Hexagon: Delete stale barrier.h 2014-05-01 10:09:47 -07:00
ia64 mm: disable zone_reclaim_mode by default 2014-06-04 16:53:59 -07:00
m32r
m68k Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next 2014-06-03 12:57:53 -07:00
metag hugetlb: restrict hugepage_migration_support() to x86_64 2014-06-04 16:53:51 -07:00
microblaze DeviceTree for 3.16: 2014-06-04 10:02:38 -07:00
mips hugetlb: restrict hugepage_migration_support() to x86_64 2014-06-04 16:53:51 -07:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next 2014-06-03 12:57:53 -07:00
openrisc DeviceTree for 3.16: 2014-06-04 10:02:38 -07:00
parisc Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next 2014-06-03 12:57:53 -07:00
powerpc mm: disable zone_reclaim_mode by default 2014-06-04 16:53:59 -07:00
s390 hugetlb: restrict hugepage_migration_support() to x86_64 2014-06-04 16:53:51 -07:00
score
sh sh: Replace __get_cpu_var uses 2014-06-04 16:53:52 -07:00
sparc hugetlb: restrict hugepage_migration_support() to x86_64 2014-06-04 16:53:51 -07:00
tile hugetlb: restrict hugepage_migration_support() to x86_64 2014-06-04 16:53:51 -07:00
um
unicore32 arch/unicore32/mm/ioremap.c: return NULL on invalid pfn 2014-06-04 16:53:53 -07:00
x86 arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c: fix dma_generic_alloc_coherent() when CONFIG_DMA_CMA is enabled 2014-06-04 16:53:57 -07:00
xtensa DeviceTree for 3.16: 2014-06-04 10:02:38 -07:00
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