On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 12:17 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > This patch adds a trace event for when page reclaim queues a page for IO and > records whether it is synchronous or asynchronous. Excessive synchronous > IO for a process can result in noticeable stalls during direct reclaim. > Excessive IO from page reclaim may indicate that the system is seriously > under provisioned for the amount of dirty pages that exist. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>