From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760366AbdKPRrF (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:47:05 -0500 Received: from gum.cmpxchg.org ([85.214.110.215]:49270 "EHLO gum.cmpxchg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965982AbdKPRom (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:44:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:44:22 -0500 From: Johannes Weiner To: Minchan Kim Cc: Tetsuo Handa , Huang Ying , Mel Gorman , Vladimir Davydov , Michal Hocko , Andrew Morton , Shakeel Butt , Greg Thelen , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm,vmscan: Kill global shrinker lock. Message-ID: <20171116174422.GC26475@cmpxchg.org> References: <1510609063-3327-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> <20171115005602.GB23810@bbox> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171115005602.GB23810@bbox> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 09:56:02AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > @@ -498,6 +498,14 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid, > sc.nid = 0; > > freed += do_shrink_slab(&sc, shrinker, nr_scanned, nr_eligible); > + /* > + * bail out if someone want to register a new shrinker to prevent > + * long time stall by parallel ongoing shrinking. > + */ > + if (rwsem_is_contended(&shrinker_rwsem)) { > + freed = 1; > + break; > + } > } When you send the formal version, please include Acked-by: Johannes Weiner