From: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>,
Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] mm: vmscan: fix force-scanning small targets without swap
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:08:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110829160839.GA22439@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1313094715-31187-1-git-send-email-jweiner@redhat.com>
Andrew,
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:31:54PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Without swap, anonymous pages are not scanned. As such, they should
> not count when considering force-scanning a small target if there is
> no swap.
>
> Otherwise, targets are not force-scanned even when their effective
> scan number is zero and the other conditions--kswapd/memcg--apply.
I forgot to mention, this patch is a fix for '246e87a memcg: fix
get_scan_count() for small targets', which went upstream this merge
window.
Probably makes sense to merge this one too before the release..?
Sorry.
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From: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>,
Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] mm: vmscan: fix force-scanning small targets without swap
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:08:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110829160839.GA22439@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1313094715-31187-1-git-send-email-jweiner@redhat.com>
Andrew,
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:31:54PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Without swap, anonymous pages are not scanned. As such, they should
> not count when considering force-scanning a small target if there is
> no swap.
>
> Otherwise, targets are not force-scanned even when their effective
> scan number is zero and the other conditions--kswapd/memcg--apply.
I forgot to mention, this patch is a fix for '246e87a memcg: fix
get_scan_count() for small targets', which went upstream this merge
window.
Probably makes sense to merge this one too before the release..?
Sorry.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-29 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-11 20:31 [patch 1/2] mm: vmscan: fix force-scanning small targets without swap Johannes Weiner
2011-08-11 20:31 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-08-11 20:31 ` [patch 2/2] mm: vmscan: drop nr_force_scan[] from get_scan_count Johannes Weiner
2011-08-11 20:31 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-08-11 23:44 ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-11 23:44 ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-12 6:58 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-08-12 6:58 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-08-12 7:04 ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-12 7:04 ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-12 13:33 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-12 13:33 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-17 14:00 ` Mel Gorman
2011-08-17 14:00 ` Mel Gorman
2011-08-17 1:12 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-17 1:12 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-11 23:16 ` [patch 1/2] mm: vmscan: fix force-scanning small targets without swap Minchan Kim
2011-08-11 23:16 ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-12 13:10 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-12 13:10 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-12 13:13 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-12 13:13 ` Michal Hocko
2011-08-17 1:12 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-17 1:12 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-08-17 13:38 ` Mel Gorman
2011-08-17 13:38 ` Mel Gorman
2011-08-29 16:08 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2011-08-29 16:08 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-08-31 23:37 ` Andrew Morton
2011-08-31 23:37 ` Andrew Morton
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