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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: use sc->priority for slab shrink targets
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:48:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171115154826.45d70959f630ac7508d8d36e@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1510766070-4772-1-git-send-email-josef@toxicpanda.com>

On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 12:14:30 -0500 Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> wrote:

> Previously we were using the ratio of the number of lru pages scanned to
> the number of eligible lru pages to determine the number of slab objects
> to scan.  The problem with this is that these two things have nothing to
> do with each other, so in slab heavy work loads where there is little to
> no page cache we can end up with the pages scanned being a very low
> number.  This means that we reclaim next to no slab pages and waste a
> lot of time reclaiming small amounts of space.
> 
> ...
>
> Andrew, I noticed you hadn't picked this up yet, so I rebased it on the latest
> linus and updated the ack's, it should be good to go.

I dropped a previous version of this on Oct 3 due to runtime failures
(I think).  What were those and how does this patch fix them (if it
does?)


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  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-15 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-15 17:14 [PATCH] mm: use sc->priority for slab shrink targets Josef Bacik
2017-11-15 23:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2017-11-16  0:52   ` Josef Bacik

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