Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:07:11 +0200 | From | Johannes Weiner <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/8] mm: memcg-aware global reclaim |
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:15:57AM -0700, Ying Han wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:39:45PM -0700, Ying Han wrote: > > > Please consider including the following patch for the next post. It causes > > > crash on some of the tests where sc->mem_cgroup is NULL (global kswapd). > > > > > > diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c > > > index b72a844..12ab25d 100644 > > > --- a/mm/vmscan.c > > > +++ b/mm/vmscan.c > > > @@ -2768,7 +2768,8 @@ loop_again: > > > * Do some background aging of the anon list, to > > > give > > > * pages a chance to be referenced before > > > reclaiming. > > > */ > > > - if (inactive_anon_is_low(zone, &sc)) > > > + if (scanning_global_lru(&sc) && > > > + inactive_anon_is_low(zone, &sc)) > > > shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, zone, > > > &sc, priority, 0); > > > > Thanks! I completely overlooked this one and only noticed it after > > changing the arguments to shrink_active_list(). > > > > On memcg configurations, scanning_global_lru() will essentially never > > be true again, so I moved the anon pre-aging to a separate function > > that also does a hierarchy loop to preage the per-memcg anon lists. > > > > I hope to send out the next revision soon. > > Also, please consider to fold in the following patch as well. It fixes > the root cgroup lru accounting and we could easily trigger OOM while > doing some swapoff test w/o it.
This makes perfect sense. I'll incorporate this and add your sign-offs to the original patch. Thanks very to the both of you and sorry for the inconvenience. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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