Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:04:07 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: migrate: record the mlocked page status to remove unnecessary lru drain | From | "Yin, Fengwei" <> |
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On 10/20/2023 12:02 PM, Yosry Ahmed wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 8:52 PM Yin, Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 10/20/2023 11:45 AM, Yosry Ahmed wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> IMHO, that seems too hacky to me. I still prefer to rely on the migration process of the mlcock pages. >>>>> >>>>> BTW, Yosry tried to address the overlap of field lru and mlock_count: >>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230618065719.1363271-1-yosryahmed@google.com/ >>>>> But the lore doesn't group all the patches. >>>> >>>> Thanks for the information. I'd like to review and test if this work can >>>> continue. >>> >>> The motivation for this work was reviving the unevictable LRU for the >>> memcg recharging RFC series [1]. However, that series was heavily >>> criticized. I was not intending on following up on it. >>> >>> If reworking the mlock_count is beneficial for other reasons, I am >>> happy to respin it if the work needed to make it mergeable is minimal. >>> Otherwise, I don't think I have the time to revisit (but feel free to >>> pick up the patches if you'd like). >>> >>> [1]https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230720070825.992023-1-yosryahmed@google.com/ >> >> I believe reworking the mlock_count is focus here. If there is no overlap >> between lru and mlock_count, the whole logic of lru_add_drain() can be >> removed here. > > All patches except patch 4 are for reworking the mlock_count. Once the > mlock count is reworked, reviving the unevictable LRU is actually very > simple and removes more code than it adds (see patch 4 below). > >> >> And I noticed the link: >> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230618065719.1363271-1-yosryahmed@google.com/ >> only has cover letter and the patches didn't grouped. > > That's weird, here are the patches (in order): > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230618065744.1363948-1-yosryahmed@google.com/ > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230618065756.1364399-1-yosryahmed@google.com/ > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230618065809.1364900-1-yosryahmed@google.com/ > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230618065816.1365301-1-yosryahmed@google.com/ > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230618065824.1365750-1-yosryahmed@google.com/ Thanks a lot.
Regards Yin, Fengwei
> >> >> >> Regards >> Yin, Fengwei >>
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