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From: "NeilBrown" <neilb@suse.de>
To: "Mel Gorman" <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: "Linux-MM" <linux-mm@kvack.org>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	"Andreas Dilger" <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
	"Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
	"Matthew Wilcox" <willy@infradead.org>,
	"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com>,
	"Dave Chinner" <david@fromorbit.com>,
	"Rik van Riel" <riel@surriel.com>,
	"Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Linux-fsdevel" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"LKML" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Mel Gorman" <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm/vmscan: Throttle reclaim and compaction when too may pages are isolated
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:27:56 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <163218047640.3992.16597395100064789255@noble.neil.brown.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210920085436.20939-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net>

On Mon, 20 Sep 2021, Mel Gorman wrote:
> @@ -2291,8 +2302,7 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec,
>  			return 0;
>  
>  		/* wait a bit for the reclaimer. */
> -		msleep(100);
> -		stalled = true;
> +		reclaim_throttle(pgdat, VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED, HZ/10);

Why drop the assignment to "stalled"?
Doing that changes the character of the loop - and makes the 'stalled'
variable always 'false'.

NeilBrown


  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-20 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-20  8:54 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Remove dependency on congestion_wait in mm/ Mel Gorman
2021-09-20  8:54 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm/vmscan: Throttle reclaim until some writeback completes if congested Mel Gorman
2021-09-20 23:19   ` NeilBrown
2021-09-21 11:12     ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-21 21:27       ` NeilBrown
2021-09-21  0:13   ` NeilBrown
2021-09-21 10:58     ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-21 21:40       ` NeilBrown
2021-09-22  6:04       ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-22  8:03         ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-22 12:16   ` Hillf Danton
2021-09-22 14:13     ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-20  8:54 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm/vmscan: Throttle reclaim and compaction when too may pages are isolated Mel Gorman
2021-09-20 23:27   ` NeilBrown [this message]
2021-09-21 11:03     ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-21 18:45   ` Yang Shi
2021-09-22  8:11     ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-20  8:54 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm/vmscan: Throttle reclaim when no progress is being made Mel Gorman
2021-09-20 23:31   ` NeilBrown
2021-09-21 11:16     ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-21 21:46       ` NeilBrown
2021-09-22  9:21         ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-20  8:54 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm/writeback: Throttle based on page writeback instead of congestion Mel Gorman
2021-09-20  8:54 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm/page_alloc: Remove the throttling logic from the page allocator Mel Gorman
2021-09-20 11:42 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] Remove dependency on congestion_wait in mm/ Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-20 12:50   ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-20 14:11     ` David Sterba
2021-09-21 11:18       ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-20 19:51   ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-21 20:46 ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-22 17:52   ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-29 10:09 [PATCH 0/5] Remove dependency on congestion_wait in mm/ v2 Mel Gorman
2021-09-29 10:09 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm/vmscan: Throttle reclaim and compaction when too may pages are isolated Mel Gorman

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