Re: [PATCH RFC] xfs, memcg: Call xfs_fs_nr_cached_objects() only in case of global reclaim

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On Thu 15-03-18 22:28:43, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> On 15.03.2018 20:49, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu 15-03-18 18:01:34, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> >> xfs_reclaim_inodes_count(XFS_M(sb)) does not care about memcg.
> >> So, it's called for memcg reclaim too, e.g. this list is shrinked
> >> disproportionality to another lists.
> >>
> >> This looks confusing, so I'm reporting about this.
> >> Consider this patch as RFC.
> > 
> > Could you be more specific about the problem you are trying to solve?
> > Because we do skip shrinkers which are not memcg aware by
> > shrink_slab:
> > 		/*
> > 		 * If kernel memory accounting is disabled, we ignore
> > 		 * SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE flag and call all shrinkers
> > 		 * passing NULL for memcg.
> > 		 */
> > 		if (memcg_kmem_enabled() &&
> > 		    !!memcg != !!(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE))
> > 			continue;
> > 
> > Or am I missing something?
> 
> sb->s_op->nr_cached_objects is a sub-method of generic super_cache_count().
> super_cache_count() is owned and only called by superblock's shrinker,
> which does have SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE flag.

Ohh, I see. I thought it was a standard "top-level" shrinker.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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