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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Hongchen Zhang <zhanghongchen@loongson.cn>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@fb.com, Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: fix extreme overreclaim and swap floods
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 09:23:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2+sbbirX11Vo+XM@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17f04d65-020e-a52d-41e8-0d540e32b475@loongson.cn>

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 02:12:17PM +0800, Hongchen Zhang wrote:
> On 2022/8/3 am 12:28, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > @@ -2988,8 +2988,6 @@ static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
> >   		nr_scanned = targets[lru] - nr[lru];
> >   		nr[lru] = targets[lru] * (100 - percentage) / 100;
> >   		nr[lru] -= min(nr[lru], nr_scanned);
> We should not just remove the following line because kswapd may also call
> this function and there is no side effect to do scan adjust for kswapd,so it
> may be better to change like this:
> +    if (current_is_kswapd())
> 		scan_adjusted = true;
> > -
> > -		scan_adjusted = true

There is no scan_adjusted after this patch.

If you're saying that kswapd should set proportional_reclaim
unconditionally, then no, it should not. Proportional reclaim is not
safe at lower priority levels, as the changelog outlines in detail.


      reply	other threads:[~2022-11-12 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-02 16:28 Johannes Weiner
2022-08-03  0:06 ` Andrew Morton
2022-08-03 13:28   ` Johannes Weiner
2022-08-03 17:27 ` Rik van Riel
2022-08-04  9:38 ` Mel Gorman
2022-08-08 13:54 ` Yosry Ahmed
2022-08-08 14:07   ` Yosry Ahmed
2022-08-12  1:59 ` Joonsoo Kim
2022-11-12 22:48   ` Johannes Weiner
2022-09-20  6:12 ` Hongchen Zhang
2022-11-12 14:23   ` Johannes Weiner [this message]

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