From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>, 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>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] mm/page_alloc: Remove the throttling logic from the page allocator
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:20:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2d3d2636-a8ba-4aa1-e7f7-1a00bd7eb097@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211019090108.25501-6-mgorman@techsingularity.net>
On 10/19/21 11:01, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The page allocator stalls based on the number of pages that are
> waiting for writeback to start but this should now be redundant.
> shrink_inactive_list() will wake flusher threads if the LRU tail are
> unqueued dirty pages so the flusher should be active. If it fails to make
> progress due to pages under writeback not being completed quickly then
> it should stall on VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
(did in v3 already)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-19 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-19 9:01 [PATCH v4 0/8] Remove dependency on congestion_wait in mm/ Mel Gorman
2021-10-19 9:01 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm/vmscan: Throttle reclaim until some writeback completes if congested Mel Gorman
2021-10-19 9:01 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm/vmscan: Throttle reclaim and compaction when too may pages are isolated Mel Gorman
2021-10-19 17:12 ` Yang Shi
2021-10-19 9:01 ` [PATCH 3/8] mm/vmscan: Throttle reclaim when no progress is being made Mel Gorman
2021-10-19 9:01 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm/writeback: Throttle based on page writeback instead of congestion Mel Gorman
2021-10-19 9:01 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm/page_alloc: Remove the throttling logic from the page allocator Mel Gorman
2021-10-19 9:20 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2021-10-19 9:01 ` [PATCH 6/8] mm/vmscan: Centralise timeout values for reclaim_throttle Mel Gorman
2021-10-22 1:06 ` NeilBrown
2021-10-22 8:12 ` Mel Gorman
2021-10-19 9:01 ` [PATCH 7/8] mm/vmscan: Increase the timeout if page reclaim is not making progress Mel Gorman
2021-10-22 1:07 ` NeilBrown
2021-10-22 8:14 ` Mel Gorman
2021-10-19 9:01 ` [PATCH 8/8] mm/vmscan: Delay waking of tasks throttled on NOPROGRESS Mel Gorman
2021-10-19 22:00 ` [PATCH v4 0/8] Remove dependency on congestion_wait in mm/ Andrew Morton
2021-10-20 8:44 ` Mel Gorman
2021-10-22 1:15 ` NeilBrown
2021-10-22 8:39 ` Mel Gorman
2021-10-22 11:26 ` NeilBrown
2021-10-22 13:17 ` Mel Gorman
2021-10-27 0:43 ` NeilBrown
2021-10-27 10:13 ` Mel Gorman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-10-22 14:46 [PATCH v5 " Mel Gorman
2021-10-22 14:46 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm/page_alloc: Remove the throttling logic from the page allocator Mel Gorman
2021-10-25 10:07 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-10-08 13:53 [PATCH v3 0/8] Remove dependency on congestion_wait in mm/ Mel Gorman
2021-10-08 13:53 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm/page_alloc: Remove the throttling logic from the page allocator Mel Gorman
2021-10-14 15:36 ` Vlastimil Babka
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