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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 6 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 4bca2a3d9174..a46c10fcddfc 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ This is value ORed together of 1 = Zone reclaim on 2 = Zone reclaim writes dirty pages out 4 = Zone reclaim swaps pages +8 = Also do a global slab reclaim pass zone_reclaim_mode is set during bootup to 1 if it is determined that pages from remote zones will cause a measurable performance reduction. The @@ -160,6 +161,11 @@ Allowing regular swap effectively restricts allocations to the local node unless explicitly overridden by memory policies or cpuset configurations. +It may be advisable to allow slab reclaim if the system makes heavy +use of files and builds up large slab caches. However, the slab +shrink operation is global, may take a long time and free slabs +in all nodes of the system. + ================================================================ zone_reclaim_interval: |