Re: [PATCH] kswapd: no need reclaim cma pages triggered by unmovable allocation

zhou xianrong
2021-02-11T15:23:43Z

On 2021/2/10 下午9:14, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 10-02-21 12:07:57, zhou xianrong wrote:
>> On 2021/2/9 下午5:23, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>> On Tue 09-02-21 16:23:13, zhou wrote:
>>>> From: zhou xianrong <xianrong.zhou@transsion.com>
>>>>
>>>> For purpose of better migration cma pages are allocated after
>>>> failure movalbe allocations and are used normally for file pages
>>>> or anonymous pages.
>>>>
>>>> In reclaim path so many cma pages if configurated are reclaimed
>>>> from lru lists in kswapd mainly or direct reclaim triggered by
>>>> unmovable or reclaimable allocations. But these cma pages can not
>>>> be used by original unmovable or reclaimable allocations. So the
>>>> reclaim are unnecessary.
>>>>
>>>> In a same system if the cma pages were configurated to large then
>>>> more failture unmovable (vmalloc etc.) or reclaimable (slab etc.)
>>>> allocations are arised and then more kswapd rounds are triggered
>>>> and then more cma pages are reclaimed.
>>> Could you be more specific? Do you have any numbers and an example
>>> configuration when this is visible?
>> It should be implicit.
> Right but the scale of the problem is an important part of _any_ patch
> justification.
Sorry. The relative description is  not suitable and should be removed.