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Re: [patch] mm, vmscan: avoid thrashing anon lru when free + file is low

From David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [patch] mm, vmscan: avoid thrashing anon lru when free + file is low
Date 2017-04-20 01:30 +0200
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Minchan Kim wrote:

> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 24efcc20af91..5d2f3fa41e92 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -2174,8 +2174,17 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>  		}
>  
>  		if (unlikely(pgdatfile + pgdatfree <= total_high_wmark)) {
> -			scan_balance = SCAN_ANON;
> -			goto out;
> +			/*
> +			 * force SCAN_ANON if inactive anonymous LRU lists of
> +			 * eligible zones are enough pages. Otherwise, thrashing
> +			 * can be happen on the small anonymous LRU list.
> +			 */
> +			if (!inactive_list_is_low(lruvec, false, NULL, sc, false) &&
> +			     lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON, sc->reclaim_idx)
> +					>> sc->priority) {
> +				scan_balance = SCAN_ANON;
> +				goto out;
> +			}
>  		}
>  	}
>  

Hi Minchan,

This looks good and it correctly biases against SCAN_ANON for my workload 
that was thrashing the anon lrus.  Feel free to use parts of my changelog 
if you'd like.

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

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[patch] mm, vmscan: avoid thrashing anon lru when free + file is  low David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2017-04-18 02:10 +0200
  Re: [patch] mm, vmscan: avoid thrashing anon lru when free + file is  low Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-04-18 03:40 +0200
    Re: [patch] mm, vmscan: avoid thrashing anon lru when free + file  is low David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2017-04-18 23:40 +0200
      Re: [patch] mm, vmscan: avoid thrashing anon lru when free + file is  low Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-04-19 02:20 +0200
        Re: [patch] mm, vmscan: avoid thrashing anon lru when free + file  is low David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2017-04-20 01:30 +0200
          Re: [patch] mm, vmscan: avoid thrashing anon lru when free + file is  low Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-04-20 08:10 +0200
      Re: [patch] mm, vmscan: avoid thrashing anon lru when free + file is  low Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-04-19 09:10 +0200
  Re: [patch] mm, vmscan: avoid thrashing anon lru when free + file is  low Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-04-18 09:20 +0200

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