From: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Marinko Catovic <marinko.catovic@gmail.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Caching/buffers become useless after some time
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 15:37:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <010001650fe29e66-359ffa28-9290-4e83-a7e2-b6d1d8d2ee1d-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180806120042.GL19540@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Mon, 6 Aug 2018, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Because a lot of FS metadata is fragmenting the memory and a large
> number of high order allocations which want to be served reclaim a lot
> of memory to achieve their gol. Considering a large part of memory is
> fragmented by unmovable objects there is no other way than to use
> reclaim to release that memory.
Well it looks like the fragmentation issue gets worse. Is that enough to
consider merging the slab defrag patchset and get some work done on inodes
and dentries to make them movable (or use targetd reclaim)?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-06 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-11 13:18 Marinko Catovic
2018-07-12 11:34 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-13 15:48 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-07-16 15:53 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-07-16 16:23 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-16 16:33 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-07-16 16:45 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-20 22:03 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-07-27 11:15 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-07-30 14:40 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-30 22:08 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-08-02 16:15 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-03 14:13 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-08-06 9:40 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-06 10:29 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-08-06 12:00 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-06 15:37 ` Christopher Lameter [this message]
2018-08-06 18:16 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-09 8:29 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-08-21 0:36 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-08-21 6:49 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-21 7:19 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-22 20:02 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-08-23 12:10 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-23 12:21 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-24 0:11 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-08-24 6:34 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-24 8:11 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-08-24 8:36 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-29 14:54 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-08-29 15:01 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-29 15:13 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-08-29 15:27 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-29 16:44 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-10-22 1:19 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-10-23 17:41 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-10-26 5:48 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-10-26 8:01 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-26 23:31 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-10-27 6:42 ` Michal Hocko
[not found] ` <6e3a9434-32f2-0388-e0c7-2bd1c2ebc8b1@suse.cz>
2018-10-30 15:30 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-30 16:08 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-10-30 17:00 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-10-30 18:26 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-10-31 7:34 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-31 7:32 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-31 13:40 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-10-31 14:53 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-10-31 17:01 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-31 19:21 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-11-01 13:23 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-01 22:46 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-11-02 8:05 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-02 11:31 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-11-02 11:49 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-02 12:22 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-02 12:41 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-11-02 13:13 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-02 13:50 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-11-02 14:49 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-02 14:59 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-30 12:01 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-12-10 21:30 ` Marinko Catovic
2018-12-10 21:47 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-31 13:12 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-24 6:24 ` Vlastimil Babka
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