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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: vdavydov.dev@gmail.com, shakeelb@google.com,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, hannes@cmpxchg.org, mhocko@kernel.org,
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	aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 05/17] mm: Assign memcg-aware shrinkers bitmap to memcg
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 15:10:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180705151030.c67eb9a989c5f0023a53d415@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aaa98988-29e9-fb81-1d36-6b8bd7a371be@virtuozzo.com>

On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 18:51:12 +0300 Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> wrote:

> > - why aren't we decreasing shrinker_nr_max in
> >   unregister_memcg_shrinker()?  That's easy to do, avoids pointless
> >   work in shrink_slab_memcg() and avoids memory waste in future
> >   prealloc_memcg_shrinker() calls.
> 
> You sure, but there are some things. Initially I went in the same way
> as memcg_nr_cache_ids is made and just took the same x2 arithmetic.
> It never decreases, so it looked good to make shrinker maps like it.
> It's the only reason, so, it should not be a problem to rework.
> 
> The only moment is Vladimir strongly recommends modularity, i.e.
> to have memcg_shrinker_map_size and shrinker_nr_max as different variables.

For what reasons?

> After the rework we won't be able to have this anymore, since memcontrol.c
> will have to know actual shrinker_nr_max value and it will have to be exported.
>
> Could this be a problem?

Vladimir?

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-05 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-03 15:08 [PATCH v8 00/17] Improve shrink_slab() scalability (old complexity was O(n^2), new is O(n)) Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 15:08 ` [PATCH v8 01/17] list_lru: Combine code under the same define Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 15:08 ` [PATCH v8 02/17] mm: Introduce CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM as combination of CONFIG_MEMCG && !CONFIG_SLOB Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 15:09 ` [PATCH v8 03/17] mm: Assign id to every memcg-aware shrinker Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 15:27   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-07-03 15:46     ` Shakeel Butt
2018-07-03 16:17       ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 17:00         ` Shakeel Butt
2018-07-03 17:32           ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-12 11:13             ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-12 11:19               ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 17:47       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-07-03 20:39         ` Al Viro
2018-07-03 15:46     ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 17:58       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-07-03 19:12         ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 19:19           ` Shakeel Butt
2018-07-03 19:25             ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-07-03 19:54               ` Shakeel Butt
2018-07-03 15:09 ` [PATCH v8 04/17] memcg: Move up for_each_mem_cgroup{, _tree} defines Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 15:09 ` [PATCH v8 05/17] mm: Assign memcg-aware shrinkers bitmap to memcg Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 20:50   ` Andrew Morton
2018-07-04 15:51     ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-05 22:10       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2018-07-06 17:50         ` Vladimir Davydov
2018-07-05 22:50     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-07-06 17:30     ` Vladimir Davydov
2018-07-03 15:09 ` [PATCH v8 06/17] mm: Refactoring in workingset_init() Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 15:09 ` [PATCH v8 07/17] fs: Refactoring in alloc_super() Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 15:09 ` [PATCH v8 08/17] fs: Propagate shrinker::id to list_lru Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 15:10 ` [PATCH v8 09/17] list_lru: Add memcg argument to list_lru_from_kmem() Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 15:10 ` [PATCH v8 10/17] list_lru: Pass dst_memcg argument to memcg_drain_list_lru_node() Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 15:10 ` [PATCH v8 11/17] list_lru: Pass lru " Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 15:10 ` [PATCH v8 12/17] mm: Export mem_cgroup_is_root() Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 15:10 ` [PATCH v8 13/17] mm: Set bit in memcg shrinker bitmap on first list_lru item apearance Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 20:54   ` Andrew Morton
2018-07-03 15:11 ` [PATCH v8 14/17] mm: Iterate only over charged shrinkers during memcg shrink_slab() Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 20:58   ` Andrew Morton
2018-07-04 14:56     ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 15:11 ` [PATCH v8 15/17] mm: Generalize shrink_slab() calls in shrink_node() Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 15:11 ` [PATCH v8 16/17] mm: Add SHRINK_EMPTY shrinker methods return value Kirill Tkhai
2018-07-03 15:11 ` [PATCH v8 17/17] mm: Clear shrinker bit if there are no objects related to memcg Kirill Tkhai

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