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* [PATCH V3 0/2] Reduce reclaim from per-zone LRU in global kswapd
@ 2011-03-29  5:56 Ying Han
  2011-03-29  5:56 ` [PATCH V3 1/2] count the soft_limit reclaim in global background reclaim Ying Han
  2011-03-29  5:56 ` [PATCH V3 2/2] add stats to monitor soft_limit reclaim Ying Han
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Ying Han @ 2011-03-29  5:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: KOSAKI Motohiro, Minchan Kim, Rik van Riel, Mel Gorman,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki, Andrew Morton
  Cc: linux-mm

The global kswapd scans per-zone LRU and reclaims pages regardless of the
cgroup. It breaks memory isolation since one cgroup can end up reclaiming
pages from another cgroup. Instead we should rely on memcg-aware target
reclaim including per-memcg kswapd and soft_limit hierarchical reclaim under
memory pressure.

In the global background reclaim, we do soft reclaim before scanning the
per-zone LRU. However, the return value is ignored. This patch is the first
step to skip shrink_zone() if soft_limit reclaim does enough work.

This is part of the effort which tries to reduce reclaiming pages in global
LRU in memcg. The per-memcg background reclaim patchset further enhances the
per-cgroup targetting reclaim, which I should have V4 posted shortly.

Try running multiple memory intensive workloads within seperate memcgs. Watch
the counters of soft_steal in memory.stat.

$ cat /dev/cgroup/A/memory.stat | grep 'soft'
soft_steal 240000
soft_scan 240000
total_soft_steal 240000
total_soft_scan 240000

Ying Han (2):
  count the soft_limit reclaim in global background reclaim
  add stats to monitor soft_limit reclaim

 Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt |    4 +++
 include/linux/memcontrol.h       |    7 +++--
 include/linux/swap.h             |    3 +-
 mm/memcontrol.c                  |   54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 mm/vmscan.c                      |   16 +++++++++--
 5 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

-- 
1.7.3.1

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2011-03-29  6:55   ` Daisuke Nishimura
2011-03-29 21:52   ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-29 21:56     ` Ying Han
2011-03-29  5:56 ` [PATCH V3 2/2] add stats to monitor soft_limit reclaim Ying Han
2011-03-29  7:03   ` Daisuke Nishimura
2011-03-29  7:12   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

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