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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] vmscan: shrink_slab() require number of lru_pages, not page order
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:07:39 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1006250857040.18900@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100625201915.8067.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> Fix simple argument error. Usually 'order' is very small value than
> lru_pages. then it can makes unnecessary icache dropping.

This is going to reduce the delta that is added to shrinker->nr
significantly thereby increasing the number of times that shrink_slab() is
called.

What does the "lru_pages" parameter do in shrink_slab()? Looks
like its only role is as a divison factor in a complex calculation of
pages to be scanned.

do_try_to_free_pages passes 0 as "lru_pages" to shrink_slab() when trying
to do cgroup lru scans. Why is that?


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-25 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-25 11:21 KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-06-25 11:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] vmscan: don't subtraction of unsined KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-06-25 14:17   ` Christoph Lameter
2010-06-28  2:26     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-06-29 15:14       ` Christoph Lameter
2010-06-25 14:07 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2010-06-27  1:03   ` [PATCH 1/2] vmscan: shrink_slab() require number of lru_pages, not page order Minchan Kim
2010-06-29 15:19     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-06-28  1:32   ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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