From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: asynchronous reclaim for memory.high
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:54:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200220205416.GI698990@mtj.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200220195535.7xblt45akld6eftj@ca-dmjordan1.us.oracle.com>
Hello, Daniel.
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 02:55:35PM -0500, Daniel Jordan wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 01:45:45PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > The setup cost can be lazy optimized but it'd still have to bounce the
> > tiny pieces of work to different threads instead of processing them in
> > one fell swoop from the same context, which most likely is gonna be
> > untenably expensive.
>
> I see, your last mail is clearer now. If it's easy to do, a pointer to where
> this happens would help so we're on the same page.
Network packet rx is the clearest example I think, but you already
mentioned it. Reclaim is less so but when kswapd reclaims, it walks
everybody, and there can be a lot of small cgroups.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-20 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-19 18:12 Johannes Weiner
2020-02-19 18:37 ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-19 19:16 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-19 19:53 ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-19 21:17 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-20 9:46 ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-20 14:41 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-19 21:41 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-02-19 22:08 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-20 15:45 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-02-20 15:56 ` Tejun Heo
2020-02-20 18:23 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-02-20 18:45 ` Tejun Heo
2020-02-20 19:55 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-02-20 20:54 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2020-02-19 19:17 ` Chris Down
2020-02-19 19:31 ` Andrew Morton
2020-02-19 21:33 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-26 20:25 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-02-26 22:26 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-26 23:36 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-02-26 23:46 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-27 0:12 ` Yang Shi
2020-02-27 2:42 ` Shakeel Butt
2020-02-27 9:58 ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-27 12:50 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-02-26 23:59 ` Yang Shi
2020-02-27 2:36 ` Shakeel Butt
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