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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 2/2] mm: memcg detect no memcgs above softlimit under zone reclaim
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:07:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <501802DB.5030600@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120731155932.GB16924@tiehlicka.suse.cz>

On 07/31/2012 11:59 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:

>> @@ -1899,6 +1907,11 @@ static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
>>   		}
>>   		memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(root, memcg,&reclaim);
>>   	} while (memcg);
>> +
>> +	if (!over_softlimit) {
>
> Is this ever false? At least root cgroup is always above the limit.
> Shouldn't we rather compare reclaimed pages?

Uh oh.

That could also result in us always reclaiming from the root cgroup
first...

Is that really what we want?

Having said that, in April I discussed an algorithm of LRU list
weighting with Ying and others that should work.  Ying's patches
look like a good basis to implement that on top of...

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-31 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-30 22:32 [PATCH V7 2/2] mm: memcg detect no memcgs above softlimit under zone reclaim Ying Han
2012-07-31 15:59 ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-31 16:07   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-07-31 17:52     ` Ying Han
2012-07-31 17:54   ` Ying Han
2012-07-31 20:02     ` Michal Hocko
2012-07-31 20:59       ` Ying Han
2012-08-01  8:45         ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-01 19:04           ` Ying Han
2012-08-01 20:10             ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-02  0:09               ` Ying Han
2012-08-02  0:43                 ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-06 14:03               ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-06 14:27                 ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-06 15:11                   ` Michal Hocko
2012-08-06 18:51                     ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-06 21:18                       ` Ying Han
2012-08-06 22:54                         ` Rik van Riel

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