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SubjectRe: [patch 3/8] mm: vmscan: save work scanning (almost) empty LRU lists
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:41:04AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 04:43:35PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > In certain cases (kswapd reclaim, memcg target reclaim), a fixed
> > minimum amount of pages is scanned from the LRU lists on each
> > iteration, to make progress.
> >
> > Do not make this minimum bigger than the respective LRU list size,
> > however, and save some busy work trying to isolate and reclaim pages
> > that are not there.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
>
> This looks like a corner case where the LRU size would have to be smaller
> than SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX. Is that common enough to care? It looks correct,
> I'm just curious.

We have one lruvec per memcg per zone, so consider memory cgroups in a
NUMA environment: NR_MEMCG * (NR_NODES - 1) * NR_LRU_LISTS permanently
empty lruvecs, assuming the memory of one cgroup is bound to one node.


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