Re: [PATCH 1/4] memcg: fix over-high reclaim amount

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello,

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 02:51:50PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Is reclaim throughput as determined by CPU cycle bandwidth a
> > meaningful metric? 
> 
> Well, considering it has a direct effect on the latency I would consider
> it quite meaningful.
>
> > I'm having a bit of trouble imagining that this
> > actually would matter especially given that writeback is single
> > threaded per bdi_writeback.
> 
> Sure, if the LRU contains a lot of dirty pages then the writeback will be
> a bottleneck. But LRUs are quite often full of the clean pagecache pages
> which can be reclaimed quickly and efficiently.

I see.  Hmmm... I can imagine the scheduling latencies from
synchronization being a factor.  Alright, if we decide to do this
return-path reclaiming, I'll update the patch to accumulate nr_pages.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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