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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 08/10] mm: vmscan: Have kswapd shrink slab only once per priority
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    Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> 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@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only


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