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    [PATCH] Zone reclaim: Allow modification of zone reclaim behavior · 1b2ffb78
    Christoph Lameter authored
    In some situations one may want zone_reclaim to behave differently.  For
    example a process writing large amounts of memory will spew unto other nodes
    to cache the writes if many pages in a zone become dirty.  This may impact the
    performance of processes running on other nodes.
    
    Allowing writes during reclaim puts a stop to that behavior and throttles the
    process by restricting the pages to the local zone.
    
    Similarly one may want to contain processes to local memory by enabling
    regular swap behavior during zone_reclaim.  Off node memory allocation can
    then be controlled through memory policies and cpusets.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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