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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
	Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>, Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 01/11] mm: memcg: consolidate hierarchy iteration primitives
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:06:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110919130656.GD21847@tiehlicka.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110912223746.GA20765@shutemov.name>

On Tue 13-09-11 01:37:46, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:57:18PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
[...]
> >  	while (1) {
> > -		victim = mem_cgroup_select_victim(root_memcg);
> > -		if (victim == root_memcg) {
> > +		victim = mem_cgroup_iter(root_memcg, victim, true);
> > +		if (!victim) {
> >  			loop++;
> >  			/*
> >  			 * We are not draining per cpu cached charges during
> > @@ -1689,10 +1644,8 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg,
> >  				 * anything, it might because there are
> >  				 * no reclaimable pages under this hierarchy
> >  				 */
> > -				if (!check_soft || !total) {
> > -					css_put(&victim->css);
> > +				if (!check_soft || !total)
> >  					break;
> > -				}
> >  				/*
> >  				 * We want to do more targeted reclaim.
> >  				 * excess >> 2 is not to excessive so as to
> > @@ -1700,15 +1653,13 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg,
> >  				 * coming back to reclaim from this cgroup
> >  				 */
> >  				if (total >= (excess >> 2) ||
> > -					(loop > MEM_CGROUP_MAX_RECLAIM_LOOPS)) {
> > -					css_put(&victim->css);
> > +					(loop > MEM_CGROUP_MAX_RECLAIM_LOOPS))
> >  					break;
> > -				}
> >  			}
> > +			continue;
> 
> Souldn't we do
> 
> victim = root_memcg;
> 
> instead?

You want to save mem_cgroup_iter call?
Yes it will work... I am not sure it is really an improvement. If we
just continue we can rely on mem_cgroup_iter doing the right thing.
Assignment might be not that obvious. But I dunno. 
-- 
Michal Hocko
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-19 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-12 10:57 [patch 0/11] mm: memcg naturalization -rc3 Johannes Weiner
2011-09-12 10:57 ` [patch 01/11] mm: memcg: consolidate hierarchy iteration primitives Johannes Weiner
2011-09-12 22:37   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-09-13  5:40     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-19 13:06     ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2011-09-13 10:06   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-19 12:53   ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-20  8:45     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20  8:53       ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-12 10:57 ` [patch 02/11] mm: vmscan: distinguish global reclaim from global LRU scanning Johannes Weiner
2011-09-12 23:02   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-09-13  5:48     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-13 10:07   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-19 13:23   ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-19 13:46     ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-20  8:52     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-12 10:57 ` [patch 03/11] mm: vmscan: distinguish between memcg triggering reclaim and memcg being scanned Johannes Weiner
2011-09-13 10:23   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-19 14:29   ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-20  8:58     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20  9:17       ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-29  7:55         ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-12 10:57 ` [patch 04/11] mm: memcg: per-priority per-zone hierarchy scan generations Johannes Weiner
2011-09-13 10:27   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-13 11:03     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-14  0:55       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-14  5:56         ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-14  7:40           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-20  8:15       ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-20  8:45   ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-20  9:10     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 12:37       ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-12 10:57 ` [patch 05/11] mm: move memcg hierarchy reclaim to generic reclaim code Johannes Weiner
2011-09-13 10:31   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-20 13:09   ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-20 13:29     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 14:08       ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-12 10:57 ` [patch 06/11] mm: memcg: remove optimization of keeping the root_mem_cgroup LRU lists empty Johannes Weiner
2011-09-13 10:34   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-20 15:02   ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-29  9:20     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-29  9:49       ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-12 10:57 ` [patch 07/11] mm: vmscan: convert unevictable page rescue scanner to per-memcg LRU lists Johannes Weiner
2011-09-13 10:37   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-21 12:33   ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-21 13:47     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-21 14:08       ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-12 10:57 ` [patch 08/11] mm: vmscan: convert global reclaim " Johannes Weiner
2011-09-13 10:41   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-21 13:10   ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-21 13:51     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-21 13:57       ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-12 10:57 ` [patch 09/11] mm: collect LRU list heads into struct lruvec Johannes Weiner
2011-09-13 10:43   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-21 13:43   ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-21 15:15     ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-12 10:57 ` [patch 10/11] mm: make per-memcg LRU lists exclusive Johannes Weiner
2011-09-13 10:47   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-21 15:24   ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-21 15:47     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-21 16:05       ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-12 10:57 ` [patch 11/11] mm: memcg: remove unused node/section info from pc->flags Johannes Weiner
2011-09-13 10:50   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-21 15:32   ` Michal Hocko
2011-09-13 20:35 ` [patch 0/11] mm: memcg naturalization -rc3 Kirill A. Shutemov

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