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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Baptiste Lepers <baptiste.lepers@gmail.com>
Cc: mgorman@techsingularity.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	dhowells@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org
Subject: Re: Lock overhead in shrink_inactive_list / Slow page reclamation
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:59:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190111135938.GG14956@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABdVr8R2y9B+2zzSAT_Ve=BQCa+F+E9_kVH+C28DGpkeQitiog@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri 11-01-19 16:52:17, Baptiste Lepers wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We have a performance issue with the page cache. One of our workload
> spends more than 50% of it's time in the lru_locks called by
> shrink_inactive_list in mm/vmscan.c.

Who does contend on the lock? Are there direct reclaimers or is it
solely kswapd with paths that are faulting the new page cache in?

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-11 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-11  5:52 Lock overhead in shrink_inactive_list / Slow page reclamation Baptiste Lepers
2019-01-11 13:59 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2019-01-11 17:53   ` Daniel Jordan
2019-01-13 23:12     ` Baptiste Lepers
2019-01-13 23:12       ` Baptiste Lepers
2019-01-14  7:06       ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-14  7:25         ` Baptiste Lepers
2019-01-14  7:25           ` Baptiste Lepers
2019-01-14  7:44           ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-14 15:22       ` Kirill Tkhai

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