On Mon 13-05-19 14:09:59, Yang Shi wrote: [...] > I think we can just account 512 base pages for nr_scanned for > isolate_lru_pages() to make the counters sane since PGSCAN_KSWAPD/DIRECT > just use it. > > And, sc->nr_scanned should be accounted as 512 base pages too otherwise we > may have nr_scanned < nr_to_reclaim all the time to result in false-negative > for priority raise and something else wrong (e.g. wrong vmpressure). Be careful. nr_scanned is used as a pressure indicator to slab shrinking AFAIR. Maybe this is ok but it really begs for much more explaining than "it should be fine". This should have happened when THP swap out was implemented... -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
