From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
dormando <dormando@rydia.net>,
Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm: vmscan: Obey proportional scanning requirements for kswapd
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:09:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130411090909.GF3710@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5166005B.3060607@jp.fujitsu.com>
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 09:14:19AM +0900, Kamezawa Hiroyuki wrote:
> >
> >nr[lru] at the end there is pages remaining to be scanned not pages
> >scanned already.
>
> yes.
>
> >Did you mean something like this?
> >
> >nr[lru] = scantarget[lru] * percentage / 100 - (scantarget[lru] - nr[lru])
> >
>
> For clarification, this "percentage" means the ratio of remaining scan target of
> another LRU. So, *scanned* percentage is "100 - percentage", right ?
>
Yes, correct.
> If I understand the changelog correctly, you'd like to keep
>
> scantarget[anon] : scantarget[file]
> == really_scanned_num[anon] : really_scanned_num[file]
>
Yes.
> even if we stop scanning in the middle of scantarget. And you introduced "percentage"
> to make sure that both scantarget should be done in the same ratio.
>
Yes.
> So...another lru should scan scantarget[x] * (100 - percentage)/100 in total.
>
> nr[lru] = scantarget[lru] * (100 - percentage)/100 - (scantarget[lru] - nr[lru])
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> proportionally adjusted scan target already scanned num
>
> = nr[lru] - scantarget[lru] * percentage/100.
>
Yes, you are completely correct. This preserves the original ratio of
anon:file scanning properly.
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Mel Gorman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-11 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-09 11:06 [PATCH 0/10] Reduce system disruption due to kswapd V2 Mel Gorman
2013-04-09 11:06 ` [PATCH 01/10] mm: vmscan: Limit the number of pages kswapd reclaims at each priority Mel Gorman
2013-04-09 13:27 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-10 6:47 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-04-09 11:06 ` [PATCH 02/10] mm: vmscan: Obey proportional scanning requirements for kswapd Mel Gorman
2013-04-10 7:16 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-04-10 14:08 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-11 0:14 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-04-11 9:09 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2013-04-09 11:06 ` [PATCH 03/10] mm: vmscan: Flatten kswapd priority loop Mel Gorman
2013-04-10 7:47 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-04-10 13:29 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 2:45 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-09 11:06 ` [PATCH 04/10] mm: vmscan: Decide whether to compact the pgdat based on reclaim progress Mel Gorman
2013-04-10 8:05 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-04-10 13:57 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 2:46 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-09 11:07 ` [PATCH 05/10] mm: vmscan: Do not allow kswapd to scan at maximum priority Mel Gorman
2013-04-09 11:07 ` [PATCH 06/10] mm: vmscan: Have kswapd writeback pages based on dirty pages encountered, not priority Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 2:51 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-09 11:07 ` [PATCH 07/10] mm: vmscan: Block kswapd if it is encountering pages under writeback Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 2:54 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-09 11:07 ` [PATCH 08/10] mm: vmscan: Have kswapd shrink slab only once per priority Mel Gorman
2013-04-09 11:07 ` [PATCH 09/10] mm: vmscan: Check if kswapd should writepage once per pgdat scan Mel Gorman
2013-04-09 11:07 ` [PATCH 10/10] mm: vmscan: Move logic from balance_pgdat() to kswapd_shrink_zone() Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 2:56 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-09 17:27 ` [PATCH 0/10] Reduce system disruption due to kswapd V2 Christoph Lameter
2013-04-10 14:14 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-10 22:28 ` dormando
2013-04-10 23:46 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-04-11 9:10 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-11 20:13 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-11 20:55 ` Zlatko Calusic
2013-04-12 19:40 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 19:52 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 20:07 ` Zlatko Calusic
2013-04-12 20:41 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 21:14 ` Zlatko Calusic
2013-04-22 6:37 ` Zlatko Calusic
2013-04-22 6:43 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-22 6:54 ` Zlatko Calusic
2013-04-22 7:12 ` Simon Jeons
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-11 19:57 [PATCH 0/10] Reduce system disruption due to kswapd V3 Mel Gorman
2013-04-11 19:57 ` [PATCH 02/10] mm: vmscan: Obey proportional scanning requirements for kswapd Mel Gorman
2013-04-18 15:01 ` Johannes Weiner
2013-04-18 15:58 ` Mel Gorman
2013-03-17 13:04 [RFC PATCH 0/8] Reduce system disruption due to kswapd Mel Gorman
2013-03-17 13:04 ` [PATCH 02/10] mm: vmscan: Obey proportional scanning requirements for kswapd Mel Gorman
2013-03-17 14:39 ` Andi Kleen
2013-03-17 15:08 ` Mel Gorman
2013-03-21 1:10 ` Rik van Riel
2013-03-21 9:54 ` Mel Gorman
2013-03-21 14:01 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-21 14:31 ` Mel Gorman
2013-03-21 15:07 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-21 15:34 ` Mel Gorman
2013-03-22 7:54 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-22 8:37 ` Mel Gorman
2013-03-22 10:04 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-22 10:47 ` Michal Hocko
2013-03-21 16:25 ` Johannes Weiner
2013-03-21 18:02 ` Mel Gorman
2013-03-22 16:53 ` Johannes Weiner
2013-03-22 18:25 ` Mel Gorman
2013-03-22 19:09 ` Johannes Weiner
2013-03-22 19:46 ` Mel Gorman
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