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From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mgorman@suse.de,
	tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [v5][PATCH 6/6] mm: vmscan: drain batch list during long operations
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 08:23:15 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130604232315.GA31006@blaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51AE06B6.3030009@sr71.net>

Hello Dave,

On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 08:24:38AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 06/03/2013 11:05 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> >> > This ensures that we drain the batch if we are about to perform a
> >> > pageout() or congestion_wait(), either of which will take some
> >> > time.  We expect this to help mitigate the worst of the latency
> >> > increase that the batching could cause.
> > Nice idea but I could see drain before pageout but congestion_wait?
> 
> That comment managed to bitrot a bit :(
> 
> The first version of these had the drain before pageout() only.  Then,
> Mel added a congestion_wait() call, and I modified the series to also
> drain there.  But, some other patches took the congestion_wait() back
> out, so I took that drain back out.

I am looking next-20130530 and it has still a congestion_wait.
I'm confusing. :(


                if (PageWriteback(page)) {
			/* Case 1 above */
			if (current_is_kswapd() &&
			    PageReclaim(page) &&
			    zone_is_reclaim_writeback(zone)) {
				congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
				zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_WRITEBACK);
> 
> I _believe_ the only congestion_wait() left in there is a cgroup-related
> one that we didn't think would cause very much harm.

The congestion_wait I am seeing is not cgroup-related one.

I'd like to clear this confusing.
Thanks.

> 
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Minchan Kim

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-04 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-03 20:02 [v5][PATCH 0/6] mm: vmscan: Batch page reclamation under shink_page_list Dave Hansen
2013-06-03 20:02 ` [v5][PATCH 1/6] mm: swap: defer clearing of page_private() for swap cache pages Dave Hansen
2013-07-14 23:47   ` Wanpeng Li
2013-07-14 23:47   ` Wanpeng Li
2013-06-03 20:02 ` [v5][PATCH 2/6] mm: swap: make 'struct page' and swp_entry_t variants of swapcache_free() Dave Hansen
2013-07-14 23:48   ` Wanpeng Li
2013-07-14 23:48   ` Wanpeng Li
2013-06-03 20:02 ` [v5][PATCH 3/6] mm: vmscan: break up __remove_mapping() Dave Hansen
2013-07-14 23:49   ` Wanpeng Li
2013-07-14 23:49   ` Wanpeng Li
2013-06-03 20:02 ` [v5][PATCH 4/6] mm: vmscan: break out mapping "freepage" code Dave Hansen
2013-07-14 23:49   ` Wanpeng Li
2013-07-14 23:49   ` Wanpeng Li
2013-06-03 20:02 ` [v5][PATCH 5/6] mm: vmscan: batch shrink_page_list() locking operations Dave Hansen
2013-06-04  1:17   ` Hillf Danton
2013-06-04  5:07     ` Minchan Kim
2013-06-04 15:22       ` Dave Hansen
2013-06-05  7:28       ` Hillf Danton
2013-06-05  7:57         ` Minchan Kim
2013-06-05 14:24         ` Dave Hansen
2013-06-04  5:01   ` Minchan Kim
2013-06-04  6:02     ` Minchan Kim
2013-06-04 15:29       ` Dave Hansen
2013-06-04 23:32         ` Minchan Kim
2013-06-04  6:10     ` Dave Hansen
2013-06-04  6:59       ` Minchan Kim
2013-07-14 23:50       ` Wanpeng Li
2013-07-14 23:50       ` Wanpeng Li
2013-06-03 20:02 ` [v5][PATCH 6/6] mm: vmscan: drain batch list during long operations Dave Hansen
2013-06-04  6:05   ` Minchan Kim
2013-06-04 15:24     ` Dave Hansen
2013-06-04 23:23       ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2013-06-04 23:31         ` Dave Hansen
2013-06-04 23:36           ` Minchan Kim
2013-06-04 23:37   ` Minchan Kim
2013-07-14 23:51   ` Wanpeng Li
2013-07-14 23:51   ` Wanpeng Li

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