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Re: [PATCH 5/3] mm, vmscan: make zone_reclaimable_pages more precise

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On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, Michal Hocko wrote:

> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> 
> zone_reclaimable_pages is used in should_reclaim_retry which uses it to
> calculate the target for the watermark check. This means that precise
> numbers are important for the correct decision. zone_reclaimable_pages
> uses zone_page_state which can contain stale data with per-cpu diffs
> not synced yet (the last vmstat_update might have run 1s in the past).
> 
> Use zone_page_state_snapshot in zone_reclaimable_pages instead. None
> of the current callers is in a hot path where getting the precise value
> (which involves per-cpu iteration) would cause an unreasonable overhead.
> 
> Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

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[PATCH 5/3] mm, vmscan: make zone_reclaimable_pages more precise Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-01-28 22:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 5/3] mm, vmscan: make zone_reclaimable_pages more  precise David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2016-01-29 00:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 5/3] mm, vmscan: make zone_reclaimable_pages more precise "Hillf Danton" <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> - 2016-01-29 04:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 5/3] mm, vmscan: make zone_reclaimable_pages more precise Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> - 2016-01-29 11:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 5/3] mm, vmscan: make zone_reclaimable_pages more precise Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-01-29 16:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 5/3] mm, vmscan: make zone_reclaimable_pages more precise Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> - 2016-01-29 22:40 +0100

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