From 24cf72518c79cdcda486ed26074ff8151291cf65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:33:23 -0700 Subject: vmscan: count the number of times zone_reclaim() scans and fails On NUMA machines, the administrator can configure zone_reclaim_mode that is a more targetted form of direct reclaim. On machines with large NUMA distances for example, a zone_reclaim_mode defaults to 1 meaning that clean unmapped pages will be reclaimed if the zone watermarks are not being met. There is a heuristic that determines if the scan is worthwhile but it is possible that the heuristic will fail and the CPU gets tied up scanning uselessly. Detecting the situation requires some guesswork and experimentation so this patch adds a counter "zreclaim_failed" to /proc/vmstat. If during high CPU utilisation this counter is increasing rapidly, then the resolution to the problem may be to set /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode to 0. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: name things consistently] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Christoph Lameter Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Wu Fengguang Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmstat.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm/vmstat.c') diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index 1e3aa8139f22..138bed53706e 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -673,6 +673,9 @@ static const char * const vmstat_text[] = { TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgscan_kswapd") TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgscan_direct") +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA + "zone_reclaim_failed", +#endif "pginodesteal", "slabs_scanned", "kswapd_steal", -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2