From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx134.postini.com [74.125.245.134]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A06196B004D for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:08:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from m3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (unknown [10.0.50.73]) by fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD293EE0B5 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:08:50 +0900 (JST) Received: from smail (m3 [127.0.0.1]) by outgoing.m3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9517345DEBF for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:08:50 +0900 (JST) Received: from s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp [10.0.50.93]) by m3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 767C645DEBB for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:08:50 +0900 (JST) Received: from s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6927A1DB8041 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:08:50 +0900 (JST) Received: from m1000.s.css.fujitsu.com (m1000.s.css.fujitsu.com [10.240.81.136]) by s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A2341DB803F for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:08:50 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <50A5CA16.7070603@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:07:34 +0900 From: Kamezawa Hiroyuki MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] memcg: get rid of once-per-second cache shrinking for dead memcgs References: <1352948093-2315-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <1352948093-2315-6-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <50A4B8C8.6020202@jp.fujitsu.com> <50A4F289.1090807@parallels.com> In-Reply-To: <50A4F289.1090807@parallels.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Glauber Costa Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Michal Hocko , Johannes Weiner , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg (2012/11/15 22:47), Glauber Costa wrote: > On 11/15/2012 01:41 PM, Kamezawa Hiroyuki wrote: >> (2012/11/15 11:54), Glauber Costa wrote: >>> The idea is to synchronously do it, leaving it up to the shrinking >>> facilities in vmscan.c and/or others. Not actively retrying shrinking >>> may leave the caches alive for more time, but it will remove the ugly >>> wakeups. One would argue that if the caches have free objects but are >>> not being shrunk, it is because we don't need that memory yet. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa >>> CC: Michal Hocko >>> CC: Kamezawa Hiroyuki >>> CC: Johannes Weiner >>> CC: Andrew Morton >> >> I agree this patch but can we have a way to see the number of unaccounted >> zombie cache usage for debugging ? >> >> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki >> > Any particular interface in mind ? > Hmm, it's debug interface and having cgroup file may be bad..... If it can be seen in bytes or some, /proc/vmstat ? out_of_track_slabs xxxxxxx. hm ? Thanks, -Kame -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org