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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	John Dias <joaodias@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH v2] mm: don't call lru draining in the nested lru_cache_disable
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 10:59:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YeqEBAKJ6NUjLQhr@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YenPK/JVNOhbxjtr@google.com>

On Thu 20-01-22 13:07:55, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 09:24:22AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Wed 19-01-22 20:25:54, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 10:20:22AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > What does prevent you from calling lru_cache_{disable,enable} this way
> > > > with the existing implementation? AFAICS calls can be nested just fine.
> > > > Or am I missing something?
> > > 
> > > It just increases more IPI calls since we drain the lru cache
> > > both upper layer and lower layer. That's I'd like to avoid
> > > in this patch. Just disable lru cache one time for entire
> > > allocation path.
> > 
> > I do not follow. Once you call lru_cache_disable at the higher level
> > then no new pages are going to be added to the pcp caches. At the same
> > time existing caches are flushed so the inner lru_cache_disable will not
> > trigger any new IPIs.
> 
> lru_cache_disable calls __lru_add_drain_all with force_all_cpus
> unconditionally so keep calling the IPI.

OK, this is something I have missed. Why cannot we remove the force_all
mode for lru_disable_count>0 when there are no pcp caches populated?

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-21  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-30 19:36 [RESEND][PATCH v2] mm: don't call lru draining in the nested lru_cache_disable Minchan Kim
2022-01-06 18:14 ` Minchan Kim
2022-01-17 13:47 ` Michal Hocko
2022-01-19  0:12   ` Minchan Kim
2022-01-19  9:20     ` Michal Hocko
2022-01-20  4:25       ` Minchan Kim
2022-01-20  8:24         ` Michal Hocko
2022-01-20 21:07           ` Minchan Kim
2022-01-21  9:59             ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2022-01-21 21:56               ` Minchan Kim
2022-01-24  9:57                 ` Michal Hocko
2022-01-24 22:22                   ` Minchan Kim
2022-01-25  9:23                     ` Michal Hocko
2022-01-25 21:06                       ` Minchan Kim
2022-01-26 12:09                         ` Michal Hocko
2022-01-20  8:42     ` David Hildenbrand
2022-01-20 21:22       ` Minchan Kim

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