Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] mm/memcontrol.c: Reduce reclaim retries in mem_cgroup_resize_limit()

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On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:11:18 +0100 Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> And to be honest, I do not really see why keeping retrying from
> mem_cgroup_resize_limit should be so much faster than keep retrying from
> the direct reclaim path. We are doing SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX batches anyway.
> mem_cgroup_resize_limit loop adds _some_ overhead but I am not really
> sure why it should be that large.

Maybe restarting the scan lots of times results in rescanning lots of
ineligible pages at the start of the list before doing useful work?

Andrey, are you able to determine where all that CPU time is being spent?

Thanks.
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