From: Ric Mason <ric.masonn@gmail.com>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Dave Shrinnker <david@fromorbit.com>,
Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
hughd@google.com, yinghan@google.com,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/28] vmscan: take at least one pass with shrinkers
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:09:42 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5164F416.8040903@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <515940E4.8050704@parallels.com>
Hi Glauber,
On 04/01/2013 04:10 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> Hi Kame,
>
>> Doesn't this break
>>
>> ==
>> /*
>> * copy the current shrinker scan count into a local variable
>> * and zero it so that other concurrent shrinker invocations
>> * don't also do this scanning work.
>> */
>> nr = atomic_long_xchg(&shrinker->nr_in_batch, 0);
>> ==
>>
>> This xchg magic ?
>>
>> Thnks,
>> -Kame
> This is done before the actual reclaim attempt, and all it does is to
> indicate to other concurrent shrinkers that "I've got it", and others
> should not attempt to shrink.
>
> Even before I touch this, this quantity represents the number of
> entities we will try to shrink. Not necessarily we will succeed. What my
> patch does, is to try at least once if the number is too small.
>
> Before it, we will try to shrink 512 objects and succeed at 0 (because
> batch is 1024). After this, we will try to free 512 objects and succeed
> at an undefined quantity between 0 and 512.
Where you get the magic number 512 and 1024? The value of SHRINK_BATCH
is 128.
>
> In both cases, we will zero out nr_in_batch in the shrinker structure to
> notify other shrinkers that we are the ones shrinking.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-10 5:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-29 9:13 [PATCH v2 00/28] memcg-aware slab shrinking Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 01/28] super: fix calculation of shrinkable objects for small numbers Glauber Costa
2013-04-01 7:16 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-03-29 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 02/28] vmscan: take at least one pass with shrinkers Glauber Costa
2013-04-01 7:26 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-04-01 8:10 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-10 5:09 ` Ric Mason [this message]
2013-04-10 7:32 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-10 9:19 ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-08 8:42 ` Joonsoo Kim
2013-04-08 8:47 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-08 9:01 ` Joonsoo Kim
2013-04-08 9:05 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-09 0:55 ` Joonsoo Kim
2013-04-09 1:29 ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-09 2:05 ` Joonsoo Kim
2013-04-09 7:43 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-09 9:08 ` Joonsoo Kim
2013-04-09 12:30 ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-10 2:51 ` Joonsoo Kim
2013-04-10 7:30 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-10 8:19 ` Joonsoo Kim
2013-04-10 8:46 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-04-10 8:46 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-04-10 10:07 ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-10 14:03 ` JoonSoo Kim
2013-04-11 0:41 ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-11 7:27 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-04-11 7:27 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-04-11 7:27 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-04-11 9:25 ` Dave Chinner
[not found] ` <20130410025115.GA5872-Hm3cg6mZ9cc@public.gmane.org>
2013-04-10 8:46 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-03-29 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 03/28] dcache: convert dentry_stat.nr_unused to per-cpu counters Glauber Costa
2013-04-05 1:09 ` Greg Thelen
2013-04-05 1:15 ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-08 9:14 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-08 13:18 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-08 23:26 ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-09 8:02 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-09 12:47 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-29 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 04/28] dentry: move to per-sb LRU locks Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 05/28] dcache: remove dentries from LRU before putting on dispose list Glauber Costa
2013-04-03 6:51 ` Sha Zhengju
2013-04-03 8:55 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-04 6:19 ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-04 6:56 ` Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 06/28] mm: new shrinker API Glauber Costa
2013-04-05 1:09 ` Greg Thelen
2013-03-29 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 07/28] shrinker: convert superblock shrinkers to new API Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 08/28] list: add a new LRU list type Glauber Costa
2013-04-04 21:53 ` Greg Thelen
2013-04-05 1:20 ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-05 8:01 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-06 0:04 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-29 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 09/28] inode: convert inode lru list to generic lru list code Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 10/28] dcache: convert to use new lru list infrastructure Glauber Costa
2013-04-08 13:14 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-08 23:28 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-29 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 11/28] list_lru: per-node " Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 12/28] shrinker: add node awareness Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 13/28] fs: convert inode and dentry shrinking to be node aware Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 14/28] xfs: convert buftarg LRU to generic code Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 15/28] xfs: convert dquot cache lru to list_lru Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 16/28] fs: convert fs shrinkers to new scan/count API Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 17/28] drivers: convert shrinkers to new count/scan API Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:14 ` [PATCH v2 18/28] shrinker: convert remaining shrinkers to " Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:14 ` [PATCH v2 19/28] hugepage: convert huge zero page shrinker to new shrinker API Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:14 ` [PATCH v2 20/28] shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:14 ` [PATCH v2 21/28] vmscan: also shrink slab in memcg pressure Glauber Costa
2013-04-01 7:46 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-04-01 8:51 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-03 10:11 ` Sha Zhengju
2013-04-03 10:43 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-04 9:35 ` Sha Zhengju
2013-04-05 8:25 ` Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:14 ` [PATCH v2 22/28] memcg,list_lru: duplicate LRUs upon kmemcg creation Glauber Costa
2013-04-01 8:05 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-04-01 8:22 ` Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:14 ` [PATCH v2 23/28] lru: add an element to a memcg list Glauber Costa
2013-04-01 8:18 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-04-01 8:29 ` Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:14 ` [PATCH v2 24/28] list_lru: also include memcg lists in counts and scans Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:14 ` [PATCH v2 25/28] list_lru: per-memcg walks Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:14 ` [PATCH v2 26/28] memcg: per-memcg kmem shrinking Glauber Costa
2013-04-01 8:31 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-04-01 8:48 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-01 9:01 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-04-01 9:14 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-01 9:35 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-03-29 9:14 ` [PATCH v2 27/28] list_lru: reclaim proportionaly between memcgs and nodes Glauber Costa
2013-03-29 9:14 ` [PATCH v2 28/28] super: targeted memcg reclaim Glauber Costa
2013-04-01 12:38 ` [PATCH v2 00/28] memcg-aware slab shrinking Serge Hallyn
2013-04-01 12:45 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-01 14:12 ` Serge Hallyn
2013-04-08 8:11 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-02 4:58 ` Dave Chinner
2013-04-02 7:55 ` Glauber Costa
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