From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org, mhocko@suse.cz, dchinner@redhat.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, devel@openvz.org,
glommer@openvz.org, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 06/18] vmscan: rename shrink_slab() args to make it more generic
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 21:04:21 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131203100421.GR10988@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <529DA806.5010307@parallels.com>
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 01:44:38PM +0400, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> On 12/03/2013 01:33 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >> kmemcg reclaim is introduced, we will have to make up phony values for
> >> nr_pages_scanned and lru_pages again when doing kmem-only reclaim for a
> >> memory cgroup, which is possible if the cgroup has its kmem limit less
> >> than the total memory limit.
> > I'm missing something here - why would memcg reclaim require
> > passing phony values? How are you going to keep slab caches in
> > balance with memory pressure generated by the page cache?
>
> To perform kmem-only reclaim - please see patch 13. When the kmem limit
> is less than the user limit, we can reach only the kmem limit. It is no
> use trying to reclaim page cache then.
Oh dear. What a nasty hack.
Dave.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-03 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-02 11:19 [PATCH v12 00/18] kmemcg shrinkers Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 01/18] memcg: make cache index determination more robust Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 02/18] memcg: consolidate callers of memcg_cache_id Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 03/18] memcg: move initialization to memcg creation Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 04/18] memcg: move several kmemcg functions upper Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 05/18] fs: do not use destroy_super() in alloc_super() fail path Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-03 9:00 ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-03 9:23 ` Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-03 13:37 ` Al Viro
2013-12-03 13:48 ` Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 06/18] vmscan: rename shrink_slab() args to make it more generic Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-03 9:33 ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-03 9:44 ` Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-03 10:04 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 07/18] vmscan: move call to shrink_slab() to shrink_zones() Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 08/18] vmscan: do_try_to_free_pages(): remove shrink_control argument Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 09/18] vmscan: shrink slab on memcg pressure Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-03 10:48 ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-03 12:15 ` Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-04 4:51 ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-04 6:31 ` Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-05 5:01 ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-05 6:57 ` Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 10/18] memcg,list_lru: add per-memcg LRU list infrastructure Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-03 11:18 ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-03 12:29 ` Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-05 21:19 ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 11/18] memcg,list_lru: add function walking over all lists of a per-memcg LRU Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 12/18] fs: make icache, dcache shrinkers memcg-aware Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-03 11:45 ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-03 12:34 ` Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 13/18] memcg: per-memcg kmem shrinking Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 14/18] vmscan: take at least one pass with shrinkers Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 15/18] memcg: allow kmem limit to be resized down Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 16/18] vmpressure: in-kernel notifications Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 17/18] memcg: reap dead memcgs upon global memory pressure Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-02 11:19 ` [PATCH v12 18/18] memcg: flush memcg items upon memcg destruction Vladimir Davydov
2013-12-02 11:22 ` [PATCH v12 00/18] kmemcg shrinkers Vladimir Davydov
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