Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/10] mm: vmscan: Have kswapd shrink slab only once per priority | Date | Sun, 17 Mar 2013 07:53:10 -0700 |
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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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