On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:07 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu 13-12-12 17:14:13, Ying Han wrote: > [...] >> I haven't tried this patch set yet. Before I am doing that, I am >> curious whether changing the target reclaim to be consistent with >> global reclaim something worthy to consider based my last reply: >> >> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c >> index 53dcde9..3f158c5 100644 >> --- a/mm/vmscan.c >> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c >> @@ -1911,20 +1911,6 @@ static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, >> struct scan_control *sc) >> >> shrink_lruvec(lruvec, sc); >> >> - /* >> - * Limit reclaim has historically picked one memcg and >> - * scanned it with decreasing priority levels until >> - * nr_to_reclaim had been reclaimed. This priority >> - * cycle is thus over after a single memcg. >> - * >> - * Direct reclaim and kswapd, on the other hand, have >> - * to scan all memory cgroups to fulfill the overall >> - * scan target for the zone. >> - */ >> - if (!global_reclaim(sc)) { >> - mem_cgroup_iter_break(root, memcg); >> - break; >> - } >> memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(root, memcg, &reclaim); > > This wouldn't work because you would over-reclaim proportionally to the > number of groups in the hierarchy. Don't get it and especially of why it is different from global reclaim? I view the global reclaim should be viewed as target reclaim, just a matter of the root cgroup is under memory pressure. Anyway, don't want to distract you from working on the next post. So feel free to not follow up on this. --Ying > >> } while (memcg); >> } >> >> --Ying > > -- > Michal Hocko > SUSE Labs -- 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>