From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from out-173.mta0.migadu.com (out-173.mta0.migadu.com [91.218.175.173]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4592232FA2C for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:35:11 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=91.218.175.173 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783956913; cv=none; b=c1xYfMcSLBg7C2HbVBIK2fWN5zJY5j1hyAGBZiQgJLjCG7GG6w2nhC8QnhL2mJPB2sE2reAGksYZTOrGksOxE71RYbeK4z492rwAhVw5LBMqx/5PhI9pZRzI38yDRVBlCBwYwyhDWDdrM5BJzj8pDruWOqtTPJupC8It+F6yk9w= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783956913; c=relaxed/simple; bh=QhWbD0mpdRPVffuWg/7EtF1BbJoD3q+2pC44Nk7TpzI=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=KLKHNx4+sQZmrOgeEJ47HvkEWVhTwLQ/+EpGvjes2a/2QVHNod7VYaqWo0GG6S93rhZWbrikC1YoO1XrK/8uv5wqFDLQK+5hNcVoNgAesFCWrca6bRLiW0mb9Ai/4dUvux9BhmZDUt1yLQjNxjM/sKZMSqZXIsF/PEzKUBCXye4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.dev; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.dev; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux.dev header.i=@linux.dev header.b=Wx3B/cbR; arc=none smtp.client-ip=91.218.175.173 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.dev Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.dev Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux.dev header.i=@linux.dev header.b="Wx3B/cbR" Message-ID: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linux.dev; s=key1; t=1783956898; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=b84zbAj0IOT/rrLgo+xScwsyz3Svgs2ZwEIPB28c6z4=; b=Wx3B/cbRzN05smJAh6GSYPpBR4jesd05hADHLSXO/xF0g529OR0897flkhNFWq4Y2Vd3av gjh3BfX3OYXR3quWsagN0aQy3VM21xnbUubOHy/lCfIwLxLDA1S5Yl6ng0j9DToARLgiF3 Voq/CzzM0ypaW293o8LK/soo29WJzOM= Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:34:52 +0100 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/super: skip non-memcg-aware nr_cached_objects in memcg slab shrink To: Qi Zheng , brauner@kernel.org, jack@suse.cz, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: hughd@google.com, boris@bur.io, clm@fb.com, dsterba@suse.com, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, cem@kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, shakeel.butt@linux.dev, hannes@cmpxchg.org, riel@surriel.com, kernel-team@meta.com References: <20260609123047.1948242-1-usama.arif@linux.dev> <4752c658-7b61-4636-ab5b-bd172e11a42c@linux.dev> Content-Language: en-US X-Report-Abuse: Please report any abuse attempt to abuse@migadu.com and include these headers. From: Usama Arif In-Reply-To: <4752c658-7b61-4636-ab5b-bd172e11a42c@linux.dev> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT On 13/07/2026 14:12, Qi Zheng wrote: > Hi Usama, > > On 6/9/26 8:30 PM, Usama Arif wrote: >> The super_block shrinker is registered with SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE because its >> dentry and inode LRUs are memcg-aware (via list_lru). But the optional >> ->nr_cached_objects() hooks that the shrinker also drives are not memcg-aware: >> btrfs extent maps and xfs inode reclaim operate on filesystem-global >> state, and shmem's unused-huge shrinker walks a per-superblock shrinklist. >> None of them filter by sc->memcg. > > This makes sense for now, but how should we handle this if these > shrinkers are made memcg-aware in the future? > > I've recently been working on making the shmem huge shrinker > memcg-aware, but noticed my changes broke after rebasing onto the latest > tree, which led me to this patch. > > As for the shmem huge shrinker, I can work around this limitation by > making it a separate shrinker. But this feels more like an overall > design decision, effectively meaning that all nr_cached_objects are > precluded from being memcg-aware. > > Thanks, > Qi > Hi Qi, Thanks for raising this. I think the alternative is what I mentioned in https://lore.kernel.org/all/cfdb8620-ea55-4226-98bf-d006820e6270@linux.dev/ move this down to the fs own callbacks instead of here. Would that be better? Thanks, Usama