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From: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
To: Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@sony.com>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
	rcu@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rcu: Stop shrinker loop
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 15:42:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200604134255.GA24897@pc636> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200604102320.15914-1-peter.enderborg@sony.com>

On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 12:23:20PM +0200, Peter Enderborg wrote:
> The count and scan can be separated in time. It is a fair chance
> that all work is already done when the scan starts. It
> then might retry. This is can be avoided with returning SHRINK_STOP.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@sony.com>
> ---
>  kernel/rcu/tree.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> index c716eadc7617..8b36c6b2887d 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> @@ -3310,7 +3310,7 @@ kfree_rcu_shrink_scan(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
>  			break;
>  	}
>  
> -	return freed;
> +	return freed == 0 ? SHRINK_STOP : freed;
>  }
>  
The loop will be stopped anyway sooner or later, but sooner is better :)
To me that change makes sense.

Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>

--
Vlad Rezki

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-04 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-04 10:23 [PATCH] rcu: Stop shrinker loop Peter Enderborg
2020-06-04 13:42 ` Uladzislau Rezki [this message]
2020-06-04 16:31   ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-06-04 18:39     ` Uladzislau Rezki

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