From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
To: "Joanne Koong" <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Cc: damon@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: zswap: fix shrinker count for the root memcg
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 02:02:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sashiko-outbox-206013@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261110015321.611093-2-joannelkoong@gmail.com>
> zswap_shrinker_count() scales the number of freeable entries on a
> memcg's zswap LRU by the memcg's compression ratio. That compression
> ratio is computed from the memcg's MEMCG_ZSWAP_B and MEMCG_ZSWAPPED
> stats.
>
> However, for the root memcg, the zswap entries owned by the root memcg
> itself are never accounted for in the stats (obj_cgroup_charge_zswap()
> skips the root objcg, and before the root memcg had an objcg, its
> entries weren't charged at all). The stats only reflect the entries
> owned by the root memcg's descendants. When the root memcg's descendants
> have no zswap entries (eg when the whole workload runs in the root
> cgroup), the shrinker reports nothing to reclaim for the root memcg, and
> its zswap entries are never written back by the shrinker. When its
> descendants do have entries, the root memcg's entries are scaled by the
> descendants' compression ratio instead of a ratio that includes them.
> [ ... ]
> Fixes: b5ba474f3f51 ("zswap: shrink zswap pool based on memory pressure")
> Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues.
--
Sashiko AI review · https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20261110015321.611093-1-joannelkoong@gmail.com?part=1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 2:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-10 1:53 [PATCH v2 0/4] mm: read root memcg stats from global counters instead of flushing Joanne Koong
2026-11-10 1:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: zswap: fix shrinker count for the root memcg Joanne Koong
2026-11-10 2:02 ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-11-10 1:53 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: memcg: read root lruvec stats from the node counters Joanne Koong
2026-11-10 2:23 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-10 23:10 ` Joanne Koong
2026-11-11 17:47 ` Michal Koutný
2026-11-10 1:53 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] mm: workingset: skip the root memcg flush in workingset_test_recent() Joanne Koong
2026-11-10 1:59 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-10 1:53 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] mm/damon/core: use node counters instead of flushing the root memcg Joanne Koong
2026-11-10 1:58 ` sashiko-bot
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=sashiko-outbox-206013@kernel.org \
--to=sashiko-bot@kernel.org \
--cc=damon@lists.linux.dev \
--cc=joannelkoong@gmail.com \
--cc=sashiko-reviews@lists.linux.dev \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox