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From: "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>
To: "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	 Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
	 Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 Efly Young <yangyifei03@kuaishou.com>,
	android-mm@google.com, yuzhao@google.com,
	 cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcg: Use larger chunks for proactive reclaim
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 14:57:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <q3m42iuxahsjrskuio3ajz2edrisiw56cwy2etx2jyht5l7jzq@ttbsrvgu4mvl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240131162442.3487473-1-tjmercier@google.com>

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Hello.

On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 04:24:41PM +0000, "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com> wrote:
>  		reclaimed = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg,
> -					min(nr_to_reclaim - nr_reclaimed, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX),
> +					max((nr_to_reclaim - nr_reclaimed) / 4,
> +					    (nr_to_reclaim - nr_reclaimed) % 4),

The 1/4 factor looks like magic. 

Commit 0388536ac291 says:
| In theory, the amount of reclaimed would be in [request, 2 * request).

Doesn't this suggest 1/2 as a better option? (I didn't pursue the
theory.)

Also IMO importantly, when nr_to_reclaim - nr_reclaimed is less than 8,
the formula gives arbitrary (unrelated to delta's magnitude) values.

Regards,
Michal

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-02-01 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-31 16:24 T.J. Mercier
2024-01-31 17:50 ` Johannes Weiner
2024-01-31 18:01   ` T.J. Mercier
2024-01-31 20:12     ` Johannes Weiner
2024-02-01 13:57 ` Michal Koutný [this message]
2024-02-01 15:34   ` Johannes Weiner
2024-02-01 18:10     ` T.J. Mercier
2024-02-02  5:02     ` Efly Young
2024-02-02 10:15       ` Michal Koutný
2024-02-02 18:22         ` T.J. Mercier
2024-02-02 19:46           ` Michal Koutný
2024-02-02 21:42             ` T.J. Mercier

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