Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/9] mm/vmscan: Consider anonymous pages without swap

Yang Shi
2020-10-29T19:31:07Z

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 12:08 PM osalvador <osalvador@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 08:57:32AM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> > IMHO, we don't have to modify those two places at all. They are used
> > to rebalance the anon lru active/inactive ratio even if we did not try
> > to evict anon pages at all, so "total_swap_pages" is used instead of
> > checking swappiness and available swap space.
> >
> > The changes may result in imbalanced anon lru.
>
> I might be missing something, so bear with me.
>
> It is true that since we are only rebalancing the lists, we do not need to
> check for swap space yet, but here we are also adding a new end-point where we
> can migrate to in case of memory pressure.
>
> So in case we can demote pages, it makes sense to proceed with the aging
> and rebalancing regardless of whether we have swap in place, right?

Yes, makes sense. I missed that point.

>
> But maybe the right procedure would be to perform some sort of the
> following check in those two places:
>
> if (total_swap_pages || can_migrate_to_demote_node)
> - proceed_with_rebalancing_or_aging

Looks sane to me.

>
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> Oscar Salvador
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