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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfc patch 1/6] memcg: remove unused retry signal from reclaim
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 11:02:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DCBF67A.3060700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305212038-15445-2-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org>

On 05/12/2011 10:53 AM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> If the memcg reclaim code detects the target memcg below its limit it
> exits and returns a guaranteed non-zero value so that the charge is
> retried.
>
> Nowadays, the charge side checks the memcg limit itself and does not
> rely on this non-zero return value trick.
>
> This patch removes it.  The reclaim code will now always return the
> true number of pages it reclaimed on its own.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner<hannes@cmpxchg.org>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-12 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-12 14:53 [rfc patch 0/6] mm: memcg naturalization Johannes Weiner
2011-05-12 14:53 ` [rfc patch 1/6] memcg: remove unused retry signal from reclaim Johannes Weiner
2011-05-12 15:02   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2011-05-12 17:22     ` Ying Han
2011-05-12 23:44   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-05-13  9:23   ` Michal Hocko
2011-05-12 14:53 ` [rfc patch 2/6] vmscan: make distinction between memcg reclaim and LRU list selection Johannes Weiner
2011-05-12 15:33   ` Rik van Riel
2011-05-12 16:03     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-05-17  6:38       ` Ying Han
2011-05-17  8:25         ` Johannes Weiner
2011-05-12 23:50   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-05-13  6:58     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-05-16 22:36       ` Andrew Morton
2011-05-12 14:53 ` [rfc patch 3/6] mm: memcg-aware global reclaim Johannes Weiner
2011-05-12 16:04   ` Rik van Riel
2011-05-12 19:19   ` Ying Han
2011-05-13  7:08     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-05-13  0:04   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-05-13  7:18     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-05-13  0:40   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-05-13  6:54     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-05-13  9:53   ` Michal Hocko
2011-05-13 10:28     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-05-13 11:02       ` Michal Hocko
2011-05-12 14:53 ` [rfc patch 4/6] memcg: reclaim statistics Johannes Weiner
2011-05-12 19:33   ` Ying Han
2011-05-16 23:10     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-05-17  0:20       ` Ying Han
2011-05-17  7:42         ` Johannes Weiner
2011-05-17 13:55           ` Rik van Riel
2011-05-12 14:53 ` [rfc patch 5/6] memcg: remove global LRU list Johannes Weiner
2011-05-13  9:53   ` Michal Hocko
2011-05-13 10:36     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-05-13 11:01       ` Michal Hocko
2011-05-12 14:53 ` [rfc patch 6/6] memcg: rework soft limit reclaim Johannes Weiner
2011-05-12 18:41   ` Ying Han
2011-05-12 18:53 ` [rfc patch 0/6] mm: memcg naturalization Ying Han
2011-05-13  7:20   ` Johannes Weiner
2011-05-17  0:53     ` Ying Han
2011-05-17  8:11       ` Johannes Weiner
2011-05-17 14:45         ` Ying Han
2011-05-16 10:30 ` Balbir Singh
2011-05-16 10:57   ` Johannes Weiner
2011-05-17  6:32     ` Balbir Singh

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