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From: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
To: osalvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	 Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	kbusch@kernel.org,  "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
	Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
	 David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/9] mm/vmscan: Consider anonymous pages without swap
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:30:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHbLzkowJQjkqweVg=g_HTS25Nx4U=boeD3bTtVJ1JBdHsBOtQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201029190804.GA4205@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 12:08 PM osalvador <osalvador@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 08:57:32AM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> > IMHO, we don't have to modify those two places at all. They are used
> > to rebalance the anon lru active/inactive ratio even if we did not try
> > to evict anon pages at all, so "total_swap_pages" is used instead of
> > checking swappiness and available swap space.
> >
> > The changes may result in imbalanced anon lru.
>
> I might be missing something, so bear with me.
>
> It is true that since we are only rebalancing the lists, we do not need to
> check for swap space yet, but here we are also adding a new end-point where we
> can migrate to in case of memory pressure.
>
> So in case we can demote pages, it makes sense to proceed with the aging
> and rebalancing regardless of whether we have swap in place, right?

Yes, makes sense. I missed that point.

>
> But maybe the right procedure would be to perform some sort of the
> following check in those two places:
>
>         if (total_swap_pages || can_migrate_to_demote_node)
>                 - proceed_with_rebalancing_or_aging

Looks sane to me.

>
> --
> Oscar Salvador
> SUSE L3


  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-29 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-07 16:17 [RFC][PATCH 0/9] [v4][RESEND] Migrate Pages in lieu of discard Dave Hansen
2020-10-07 16:17 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/9] mm/numa: node demotion data structure and lookup Dave Hansen
2020-10-07 16:17 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/9] mm/numa: automatically generate node migration order Dave Hansen
2020-10-07 16:17 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/9] mm/migrate: update migration order during on hotplug events Dave Hansen
2020-10-07 18:08   ` osalvador
2020-10-07 16:17 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/9] mm/migrate: make migrate_pages() return nr_succeeded Dave Hansen
2020-10-07 16:17 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/9] mm/migrate: demote pages during reclaim Dave Hansen
2020-10-27 15:29   ` Oscar Salvador
2020-10-27 16:53     ` Yang Shi
2020-10-07 16:17 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/9] mm/vmscan: add page demotion counter Dave Hansen
2020-10-19  7:37   ` Huang, Ying
2020-10-27 16:41     ` Yang Shi
2020-10-28  1:25       ` Huang, Ying
2020-10-07 16:17 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/9] mm/vmscan: Consider anonymous pages without swap Dave Hansen
2020-10-29  8:14   ` Oscar Salvador
2020-10-29 14:33     ` Dave Hansen
2020-10-29 15:57       ` Yang Shi
2020-10-29 19:08         ` osalvador
2020-10-29 19:30           ` Yang Shi [this message]
2020-10-07 16:17 ` [RFC][PATCH 8/9] mm/vmscan: never demote for memcg reclaim Dave Hansen
2020-10-07 16:17 ` [RFC][PATCH 9/9] mm/migrate: new zone_reclaim_mode to enable reclaim migration Dave Hansen
2020-10-12 21:30 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/9] [v4][RESEND] Migrate Pages in lieu of discard Yang Shi

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