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From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] mm, pagevec: Release/reacquire lru_lock on pgdat change
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 00:53:02 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160715155302.GD8644@bbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1468588165-12461-4-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net>

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 02:09:23PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> With node-lru, the locking is based on the pgdat. Previously it was
> required that a pagevec drain released one zone lru_lock and acquired
> another zone lru_lock on every zone change. Now, it's only necessary if
> the node changes. The end-result is fewer lock release/acquires if the
> pages are all on the same node but in different zones.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

check_move_unevictable_pages could be a candidate, too.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-15 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-15 13:09 [PATCH 0/5] Follow-up fixes to node-lru series v2 Mel Gorman
2016-07-15 13:09 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm, vmscan: make shrink_node decisions more node-centric -fix Mel Gorman
2016-07-15 15:42   ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-18 16:14   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-15 13:09 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm, vmscan: avoid passing in classzone_idx unnecessarily to compaction_ready -fix Mel Gorman
2016-07-15 15:50   ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-18 16:15   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-15 13:09 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm, pagevec: Release/reacquire lru_lock on pgdat change Mel Gorman
2016-07-15 15:53   ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2016-07-18 16:20   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-15 13:09 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm: show node_pages_scanned per node, not zone Mel Gorman
2016-07-16 10:14   ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-15 13:09 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm, vmscan: Update all zone LRU sizes before updating memcg Mel Gorman
2016-07-15 14:45   ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-15 15:01     ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-15 15:54   ` Minchan Kim

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