From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 141AE6B0169 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:14:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:15:27 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH]vmscan: add block plug for page reclaim Message-Id: <20110727181527.c4f6d806.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1311815060.15392.375.camel@sli10-conroe> References: <1311130413.15392.326.camel@sli10-conroe> <1311142253.15392.361.camel@sli10-conroe> <1311144559.15392.366.camel@sli10-conroe> <4E287EC0.4030208@fusionio.com> <1311311695.15392.369.camel@sli10-conroe> <4E2B17A6.6080602@fusionio.com> <20110727164523.c2b1d569.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1311815060.15392.375.camel@sli10-conroe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Shaohua Li Cc: Jens Axboe , Minchan Kim , "mgorman@suse.de" , linux-mm , lkml On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:04:20 +0800 Shaohua Li wrote: > > Using an additional 44 bytes of stack on that path is also > > significant(ly bad). But we need to fix that problem anyway. One way > > we could improve things in mm/vmscan.c is to move the blk_plug into > > scan_control then get the scan_control off the stack in some manner. > > That's easy for kswapd: allocate one scan_control per kswapd at > > startup. Doing it for direct-reclaim would be a bit trickier... > unfortunately, the direct-reclaim case is what cares about stack. > > BTW, the scan_control can be dieted. may_unmap/may_swap/may_writepage > can be a bit. swappiness < 100, so can be a char. order <= 11, can be a > char. should I do it to cut the size? All five will fit in a 32-bit word, at some expense in code size. But I think first it would be better to work on a way of getting it all off the stack, along with the blk_plug. Could be done with a per-cpu array and CPU pinning, but CPU pinning is a bit expensive nowadays. Could put a scan_control* into the tack_struct, but that's dopey. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org