Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> writes: > If kswaps fails to make progress but continues to shrink slab then it'll > either discard all of slab or consume CPU uselessly scanning shrinkers. > This patch causes kswapd to only call the shrinkers once per priority. Great. This was too aggressive for a long time. Probably still needs more intelligence in the shrinkers itself to be really good though (e.g. the old defrag heuristics in dcache) -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only -- 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>