linux/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl
Mel Gorman 74f4482209 mm/page_alloc: introduce vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction
This introduces a new sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction.  It is
similar to the old vm.percpu_pagelist_fraction.  The old sysctl increased
both pcp->batch and pcp->high with the higher pcp->high potentially
reducing zone->lock contention.  However, the higher pcp->batch value also
potentially increased allocation latency while the PCP was refilled.  This
sysctl only adjusts pcp->high so that zone->lock contention is potentially
reduced but allocation latency during a PCP refill remains the same.

  # grep -E "high:|batch" /proc/zoneinfo | tail -2
              high:  649
              batch: 63

  # sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction=8
  # grep -E "high:|batch" /proc/zoneinfo | tail -2
              high:  35071
              batch: 63

  # sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction=64
              high:  4383
              batch: 63

  # sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction=0
              high:  649
              batch: 63

[mgorman@techsingularity.net: fix documentation]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210528151010.GQ30378@techsingularity.net

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210525080119.5455-7-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29 10:53:55 -07:00
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abi.rst Documentation: fix multiple typos found in the admin-guide subdirectory 2020-12-08 10:27:56 -07:00
fs.rst Update Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst 2021-01-28 15:45:10 -07:00
index.rst
kernel.rst doc: watchdog: modify the doc related to "watchdog/%u" 2021-06-29 10:53:46 -07:00
net.rst powerpc updates for 5.13 2021-04-30 12:22:28 -07:00
sunrpc.rst
user.rst time/namespace: Add max_time_namespaces ucount 2020-04-07 12:37:21 +02:00
vm.rst mm/page_alloc: introduce vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction 2021-06-29 10:53:55 -07:00