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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>,
	Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, willy@infradead.org,
	mhocko@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	mgorman@techsingularity.net, vbabka@suse.cz, "Van De Ven,
	Arjan" <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Cc: yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com, nitesh@redhat.com,
	konrad.wilk@oracle.com, david@redhat.com, pagupta@redhat.com,
	riel@surriel.com, lcapitulino@redhat.com, wei.w.wang@intel.com,
	aarcange@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	dan.j.williams@intel.com, osalvador@suse.de, "Paterson-Jones,
	Roland" <rolandp@amazon.com>,
	hannes@cmpxchg.org, hare@suse.com, "Boeuf,
	Sebastien" <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v16.1 0/9] mm / virtio: Provide support for free page reporting
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:20:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21444cdc-76f9-1b06-093e-950cbeb4aa1f@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af0b12780092e0007ec9e6dbfc92bc15b604b8f4.camel@linux.intel.com>

On 1/23/20 8:26 AM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> The big piece I'm missing is the page cache. Linux will by default try 
>> to keep the free list as small as it can in favor of page cache, so most 
>> of the benefit of this patch set will be void in real world scenarios.
> Agreed. This is a the next piece of this I plan to work on once this is
> accepted. For now the quick and dirty approach is to essentially make use
> of the /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches interface in the guest by either putting
> it in a cronjob somewhere or to have it after memory intensive workloads.

There was an implementation in "Clear Linux" that used this sysctl:

> https://github.com/Conan-Kudo/omv-kernel-rc/blob/master/0154-sysctl-vm-Fine-grained-cache-shrinking.patch

(I can't find it in the Clear repos at the moment, must not be used
currently).  But the idea was to have a little daemon in the host that
periodically applied some artificial pressure with this sysctl.  This
sysctl is a smaller hammer than /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches and lets you
drop small amounts of cache.

The right way to do it is probably to do real, generic reclaim instead
of drop_caches.

This isn't conceptually *that* far away from the "proactive reclaim"
that other folks have proposed:

	https://lwn.net/Articles/787611/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-23 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-22 17:43 [PATCH v16.1 0/9] mm / virtio: Provide support for free page reporting Alexander Duyck
2020-01-22 17:43 ` [PATCH v16.1 1/9] mm: Adjust shuffle code to allow for future coalescing Alexander Duyck
2020-01-22 17:43 ` [PATCH v16.1 2/9] mm: Use zone and order instead of free area in free_list manipulators Alexander Duyck
2020-01-22 17:43 ` [PATCH v16.1 3/9] mm: Add function __putback_isolated_page Alexander Duyck
2020-01-22 17:43 ` [PATCH v16.1 4/9] mm: Introduce Reported pages Alexander Duyck
2020-01-22 17:43 ` [PATCH v16.1 5/9] virtio-balloon: Pull page poisoning config out of free page hinting Alexander Duyck
2020-01-22 17:43 ` [PATCH v16.1 6/9] virtio-balloon: Add support for providing free page reports to host Alexander Duyck
2020-02-11 11:03   ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-11 11:47     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-02-11 12:19       ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-11 14:07         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-02-11 14:31           ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-11 14:48             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-02-11 15:13               ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-11 16:33                 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-02-11 17:04                   ` David Hildenbrand
2020-01-22 17:43 ` [PATCH v16.1 7/9] mm/page_reporting: Rotate reported pages to the tail of the list Alexander Duyck
2020-01-22 17:43 ` [PATCH v16.1 8/9] mm/page_reporting: Add budget limit on how many pages can be reported per pass Alexander Duyck
2020-01-22 17:44 ` [PATCH v16.1 9/9] mm/page_reporting: Add free page reporting documentation Alexander Duyck
2020-01-23 10:20 ` [PATCH v16.1 0/9] mm / virtio: Provide support for free page reporting Alexander Graf
2020-01-23 14:05   ` David Hildenbrand
2020-01-23 14:52     ` Alexander Graf
2020-01-24 13:25       ` David Hildenbrand
2020-01-24 16:20         ` David Hildenbrand
2020-01-23 16:26   ` Alexander Duyck
2020-01-23 16:54     ` Alexander Graf
2020-01-23 18:33       ` Alexander Duyck
2020-01-23 18:47         ` Graf (AWS), Alexander
2020-01-23 22:05           ` Alexander Duyck
2020-01-23 17:20     ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2020-01-23 19:23       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2020-01-23 19:17     ` Johannes Weiner
2020-01-23 22:29       ` Alexander Duyck
2020-01-23 23:24         ` Dave Hansen
     [not found] ` <20200124132352.12824-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2020-01-24 16:40   ` Alexander Graf
2020-02-03 22:05 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-02-10 19:18   ` Should I repost? (was: Re: [PATCH v16.1 0/9] mm / virtio: Provide support for free page reporting) Alexander Duyck
2020-02-11 10:40     ` Mel Gorman
2020-02-11 22:57       ` Alexander Duyck

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