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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.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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  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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