From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
To: Richard Chang <richardycc@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>, Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>,
Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>, Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
"T . J . Mercier" <tjmercier@google.com>,
Martin Liu <liumartin@google.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: abort proactive reclaim early when freezing
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 12:48:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ak1XzPxbwBF72d1m@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260706081218.3438762-1-richardycc@google.com>
On Mon, Jul 06, 2026 at 08:12:18AM +0000, Richard Chang wrote:
> Proactive reclaim (via memory.reclaim or node reclaim) checks for pending
> signals in its outer loop in user_proactive_reclaim(). However, the inner
> reclaim loops—scanning cgroups in shrink_many() and evicting folios in
> try_to_shrink_lruvec() can run for a long time before returning to the
> outer loop, especially on systems with many cgroups or large memory sizes.
>
> This latency in responding to signals can block the freezer (both cgroup
> freezer and system suspend), leading to freezer timeouts. This issue was
> specifically observed on Android when attempting to freeze background
> cgroups while proactive reclaim was active.
>
Can you please explain how freezing operation was delayed due to proactive
reclaim?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-07 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-06 8:12 [PATCH] mm: vmscan: abort proactive reclaim early when freezing Richard Chang
2026-07-06 12:54 ` Barry Song
2026-07-07 8:00 ` Richard Chang
2026-07-06 23:38 ` Andrew Morton
2026-07-07 10:13 ` Richard Chang
2026-07-07 2:20 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-07-07 8:04 ` Richard Chang
2026-07-07 18:28 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-07-07 19:48 ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
2026-07-08 4:14 ` Richard Chang
2026-07-08 4:54 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-07-08 7:24 ` Richard Chang
2026-07-08 15:47 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-07-08 16:03 ` T.J. Mercier
2026-07-08 16:51 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-07-09 7:22 ` [PATCH v2] mm: vmscan: abort proactive reclaim early when freezing for suspend Richard Chang
2026-07-09 12:06 ` Michal Hocko
2026-07-10 3:29 ` Richard Chang
2026-07-10 6:27 ` Michal Hocko
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=ak1XzPxbwBF72d1m@linux.dev \
--to=shakeel.butt@linux.dev \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=axelrasmussen@google.com \
--cc=baohua@kernel.org \
--cc=david@kernel.org \
--cc=hannes@cmpxchg.org \
--cc=kasong@tencent.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
--cc=liumartin@google.com \
--cc=ljs@kernel.org \
--cc=mhocko@kernel.org \
--cc=minchan@kernel.org \
--cc=qi.zheng@linux.dev \
--cc=richardycc@google.com \
--cc=surenb@google.com \
--cc=tjmercier@google.com \
--cc=weixugc@google.com \
--cc=yuanchu@google.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox