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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Zhu Yanhai <zhu.yanhai@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 4/9] Add memcg kswapd thread pool
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:39:24 +0900 (JST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110422143957.FA6D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303446260-21333-5-git-send-email-yinghan@google.com>

> +bool mem_cgroup_kswapd_can_sleep(void)
> +{
> +	return list_empty(&memcg_kswapd_control.list);
> +}

and, 

> @@ -2583,40 +2585,46 @@ static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(struct kswapd *kswapd_p, int order,
>  	} else {
> +		/* For now, we just check the remaining works.*/
> +		if (mem_cgroup_kswapd_can_sleep())
> +			schedule();

has bad assumption. If freeable memory is very little and kswapds are
contended, memcg-kswap also have to give up and go into sleep as global
kswapd.

Otherwise, We are going to see kswapd cpu 100% consumption issue again.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-22  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-22  4:24 [RFC PATCH V7 0/9] memcg: per cgroup background reclaim Ying Han
2011-04-22  4:24 ` [PATCH V7 1/9] Add kswapd descriptor Ying Han
2011-04-22  4:31   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-04-22  4:47   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-22  5:55     ` Ying Han
2011-04-22  4:24 ` [PATCH V7 2/9] Add per memcg reclaim watermarks Ying Han
2011-04-22  4:24 ` [PATCH V7 3/9] New APIs to adjust per-memcg wmarks Ying Han
2011-04-22  4:32   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-04-22  4:24 ` [PATCH V7 4/9] Add memcg kswapd thread pool Ying Han
2011-04-22  4:36   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-04-22  4:49     ` Ying Han
2011-04-22  5:00       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-04-22  5:53         ` Ying Han
2011-04-22  5:59           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-04-22  6:10             ` Ying Han
2011-04-22  7:46               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-04-22  7:59                 ` Ying Han
2011-04-22  8:02                   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-04-24 23:26                   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-04-25  2:08                     ` Ying Han
2011-04-22  6:02         ` Zhu Yanhai
2011-04-22  6:14           ` Ying Han
2011-04-22  5:39   ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2011-04-22  5:56     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-04-22  4:24 ` [PATCH V7 5/9] Infrastructure to support per-memcg reclaim Ying Han
2011-04-22  4:38   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-04-22  5:11   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-22  5:59     ` Ying Han
2011-04-22  5:27   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-22  6:00     ` Ying Han
2011-04-22  4:24 ` [PATCH V7 6/9] Implement the select_victim_node within memcg Ying Han
2011-04-22  4:39   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-04-22  4:24 ` [PATCH V7 7/9] Per-memcg background reclaim Ying Han
2011-04-22  4:40   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-04-22  6:00   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-22  7:54     ` Ying Han
2011-04-22  8:44       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-22 18:37         ` Ying Han
2011-04-25  2:21           ` [PATCH] vmscan,memcg: memcg aware swap token KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-25  9:47             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-04-25 17:13             ` Ying Han
2011-04-26  2:08               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-22  4:24 ` [PATCH V7 8/9] Add per-memcg zone "unreclaimable" Ying Han
2011-04-22  4:43   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-04-22  6:13   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-04-22  6:17     ` Ying Han
2011-04-22  4:24 ` [PATCH V7 9/9] Enable per-memcg background reclaim Ying Han
2011-04-22  4:44   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

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