On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 12:14:30 -0500 Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Previously we were using the ratio of the number of lru pages scanned to > the number of eligible lru pages to determine the number of slab objects > to scan. The problem with this is that these two things have nothing to > do with each other, so in slab heavy work loads where there is little to > no page cache we can end up with the pages scanned being a very low > number. This means that we reclaim next to no slab pages and waste a > lot of time reclaiming small amounts of space. > > ... > > Andrew, I noticed you hadn't picked this up yet, so I rebased it on the latest > linus and updated the ack's, it should be good to go. I dropped a previous version of this on Oct 3 due to runtime failures (I think). What were those and how does this patch fix them (if it does?) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
