From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] memcg, vmscan: Fix forced scan of anonymous pages
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:06:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140731150653.GA9952@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406807385-5168-3-git-send-email-jmarchan@redhat.com>
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 01:49:45PM +0200, Jerome Marchand wrote:
> When memory cgoups are enabled, the code that decides to force to scan
> anonymous pages in get_scan_count() compares global values (free,
> high_watermark) to a value that is restricted to a memory cgroup
> (file). It make the code over-eager to force anon scan.
>
> For instance, it will force anon scan when scanning a memcg that is
> mainly populated by anonymous page, even when there is plenty of file
> pages to get rid of in others memcgs, even when swappiness == 0. It
> breaks user's expectation about swappiness and hurts performance.
>
> This patch make sure that forced anon scan only happens when there not
> enough file pages for the all zone, not just in one random memcg.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-31 11:49 [PATCH 0/2] Fix excessive swapping when memcg are enabled Jerome Marchand
2014-07-31 11:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm, vmscan: fix an outdated comment still mentioning get_scan_ratio Jerome Marchand
2014-07-31 11:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] memcg, vmscan: Fix forced scan of anonymous pages Jerome Marchand
2014-07-31 12:30 ` Michal Hocko
2014-08-01 18:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2014-08-01 18:52 ` Michal Hocko
2014-08-04 9:56 ` Jerome Marchand
2014-07-31 15:06 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2014-07-31 15:38 ` Rik van Riel
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