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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Hongchen Zhang <zhanghongchen@loongson.cn>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: don't scan adjust too much if current is not kswapd
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:13:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220921091303.hihmb3qvfvl3s365@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3f4d1bb-418c-fbf5-c251-fd448f4d4e86@loongson.cn>

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 10:23:05AM +0800, Hongchen Zhang wrote:
> Hi Mel,
> 
> The scan adjust algorithm was originally introduced by you from
> commmit e82e0561dae9 ("mm: vmscan: obey proportional scanning requirements
> for kswapd"), any suggestion about this fix patch?
> In short, proportional scanning is not friendly to processes other than
> kswapd.
> 

I suspect that 6eb90d649537 ("mm: vmscan: fix extreme overreclaim and swap
floods") is a more appropriate fix. While it also has a fairness impact,
it's a more general approach that is likely more robust and while
fairness is important, completely thrashing a full LRU is neither fair
nor expected.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs


  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-21  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-14  2:33 Hongchen Zhang
2022-09-14 22:51 ` Andrew Morton
2022-09-14 23:02   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-09-15  1:19   ` Hongchen Zhang
2022-09-15  7:28     ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-09-15  8:02       ` Hongchen Zhang
2022-09-15  9:00         ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-09-15  9:30           ` Hongchen Zhang
2022-09-16  0:57           ` Hongchen Zhang
2022-09-16  8:40             ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-09-16 10:19               ` Hongchen Zhang
2022-09-19 23:32                 ` Yosry Ahmed
2022-09-20  5:53                   ` Hongchen Zhang
2022-09-20  2:23                 ` Hongchen Zhang
2022-09-21  9:13                   ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2022-09-21 10:14                     ` Hongchen Zhang
2022-09-15 13:38         ` Feng Tang

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