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Re: [PATCH 6/7] mm: free swap cache aggressively if memcg swap is full

From Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 6/7] mm: free swap cache aggressively if memcg swap is full
Date 2015-12-12 17:20 +0100
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 02:33:58PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 02:39:19PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> > Swap cache pages are freed aggressively if swap is nearly full (>50%
> > currently), because otherwise we are likely to stop scanning anonymous
> > when we near the swap limit even if there is plenty of freeable swap
> > cache pages. We should follow the same trend in case of memory cgroup,
> > which has its own swap limit.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> 
> One note:
> 
> > @@ -5839,6 +5839,29 @@ long mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> >  	return nr_swap_pages;
> >  }
> >  
> > +bool mem_cgroup_swap_full(struct page *page)
> > +{
> > +	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> > +
> > +	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
> > +
> > +	if (vm_swap_full())
> > +		return true;
> > +	if (!do_swap_account || !PageSwapCache(page))
> > +		return false;
> 
> The callers establish PageSwapCache() under the page lock, which makes
> sense since they only inquire about the swap state when deciding what
> to do with a swapcache page at hand. So this check seems unnecessary.

Yeah, you're right, we don't need it here. Will remove it in v2.

Besides, I think I should have inserted cgroup_subsys_on_dflt check in
this function so that it wouldn't check memcg->swap limit in case the
legacy hierarchy is used. Will do.

Thanks,
Vladimir
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[PATCH 0/7] Add swap accounting to cgroup2 Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> - 2015-12-10 12:40 +0100
  [PATCH 4/7] swap.h: move memcg related stuff to the end of the file Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> - 2015-12-10 12:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/7] swap.h: move memcg related stuff to the end of the  file Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2015-12-11 20:30 +0100
  [PATCH 3/7] mm: memcontrol: replace mem_cgroup_lruvec_online with mem_cgroup_online Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> - 2015-12-10 12:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/7] mm: memcontrol: replace mem_cgroup_lruvec_online  with mem_cgroup_online Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2015-12-11 20:30 +0100
  [PATCH 2/7] mm: vmscan: pass memcg to get_scan_count() Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> - 2015-12-10 12:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/7] mm: vmscan: pass memcg to get_scan_count() Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2015-12-11 20:30 +0100
  [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> - 2015-12-10 12:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2015-12-10 17:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> - 2015-12-10 18:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-12-11 04:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> - 2015-12-11 08:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2015-12-14 16:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2015-12-14 16:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> - 2015-12-14 20:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2015-12-14 21:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-12-15 04:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> - 2015-12-15 12:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-12-16 03:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2015-12-15 16:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-12-16 04:20 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2015-12-16 12:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-12-17 03:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2015-12-17 04:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-12-17 05:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2015-12-15 18:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2015-12-15 21:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-12-16 05:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-12-15 04:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> - 2015-12-15 09:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2 Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-12-15 10:40 +0100
  [PATCH 7/7] Documentation: cgroup: add memory.swap.{current,max} description Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> - 2015-12-10 12:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 7/7] Documentation: cgroup: add memory.swap.{current,max}  description Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2015-12-11 20:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 7/7] Documentation: cgroup: add memory.swap.{current,max}  description Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> - 2015-12-12 17:20 +0100
  [PATCH 6/7] mm: free swap cache aggressively if memcg swap is full Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> - 2015-12-10 12:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 6/7] mm: free swap cache aggressively if memcg swap is  full Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2015-12-11 20:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 6/7] mm: free swap cache aggressively if memcg swap is  full Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> - 2015-12-12 17:20 +0100

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