From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F1E8900137 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 04:07:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:07:11 +0200 From: Johannes Weiner Subject: Re: [patch 2/8] mm: memcg-aware global reclaim Message-ID: <20110829080711.GC32114@cmpxchg.org> References: <1306909519-7286-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <1306909519-7286-3-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <20110811210914.GB31229@cmpxchg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Ying Han Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Daisuke Nishimura , Balbir Singh , Michal Hocko , Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel , Minchan Kim , KOSAKI Motohiro , Mel Gorman , Greg Thelen , Michel Lespinasse , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:15:57AM -0700, Ying Han wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:39:45PM -0700, Ying Han wrote: > > > Please consider including the following patch for the next post. It causes > > > crash on some of the tests where sc->mem_cgroup is NULL (global kswapd). > > > > > > diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c > > > index b72a844..12ab25d 100644 > > > --- a/mm/vmscan.c > > > +++ b/mm/vmscan.c > > > @@ -2768,7 +2768,8 @@ loop_again: > > > * Do some background aging of the anon list, to > > > give > > > * pages a chance to be referenced before > > > reclaiming. > > > */ > > > - if (inactive_anon_is_low(zone, &sc)) > > > + if (scanning_global_lru(&sc) && > > > + inactive_anon_is_low(zone, &sc)) > > > shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, zone, > > > &sc, priority, 0); > > > > Thanks! I completely overlooked this one and only noticed it after > > changing the arguments to shrink_active_list(). > > > > On memcg configurations, scanning_global_lru() will essentially never > > be true again, so I moved the anon pre-aging to a separate function > > that also does a hierarchy loop to preage the per-memcg anon lists. > > > > I hope to send out the next revision soon. > > Also, please consider to fold in the following patch as well. It fixes > the root cgroup lru accounting and we could easily trigger OOM while > doing some swapoff test w/o it. This makes perfect sense. I'll incorporate this and add your sign-offs to the original patch. Thanks very to the both of you and sorry for the inconvenience. -- 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