Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: Correctly check if reclaimer should schedule during shrink_slab

[KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>]

(2011/05/18 1:15), Mel Gorman wrote:
> It has been reported on some laptops that kswapd is consuming large
> amounts of CPU and not being scheduled when SLUB is enabled during
> large amounts of file copying. It is expected that this is due to
> kswapd missing every cond_resched() point because;
>
> shrink_page_list() calls cond_resched() if inactive pages were isolated
>          which in turn may not happen if all_unreclaimable is set in
>          shrink_zones(). If for whatver reason, all_unreclaimable is
>          set on all zones, we can miss calling cond_resched().
>
> balance_pgdat() only calls cond_resched if the zones are not
>          balanced. For a high-order allocation that is balanced, it
>          checks order-0 again. During that window, order-0 might have
>          become unbalanced so it loops again for order-0 and returns
>          that it was reclaiming for order-0 to kswapd(). It can then
>          find that a caller has rewoken kswapd for a high-order and
>          re-enters balance_pgdat() without ever calling cond_resched().
>
> shrink_slab only calls cond_resched() if we are reclaiming slab
> 	pages. If there are a large number of direct reclaimers, the
> 	shrinker_rwsem can be contended and prevent kswapd calling
> 	cond_resched().
>
> This patch modifies the shrink_slab() case. If the semaphore is
> contended, the caller will still check cond_resched(). After each
> successful call into a shrinker, the check for cond_resched() is
> still necessary in case one shrinker call is particularly slow.
>
> This patch replaces
> mm-vmscan-if-kswapd-has-been-running-too-long-allow-it-to-sleep.patch
> in -mm.
>
> [mgorman@suse.de: Preserve call to cond_resched after each call into shrinker]
> From: Minchan Kim<minchan.kim@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman<mgorman@suse.de>

Looks good to me.
	Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>


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