Do dirty ratio writeback thresholds take HugePages into account?
Issue
- Do dirty page allocations take HugePages into account?
- Do dirty writeback thresholds based on dirty ratios (kernel tunables dirty_ratio and dirty_background_ratio) take allocated HugePages into account?
For example, if dirty_ratio is set to 10% on a system with 100Gb RAM and 90Gb of HugePages allocated, does the calculated threshold become 10Gb (10% of total RAM) or 1Gb (10% of available RAM)?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and later
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and older
- HugePages
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