From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: don't show nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/vmstat
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:30:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da797c29-129c-1591-bb85-79817dafd912@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1804271139500.152082@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On 04/27/2018 08:41 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>
>> It was in the original thread, see e.g.
>> <08524819-14ef-81d0-fa90-d7af13c6b9d5@suse.cz>
>>
>> However it will take some time to get that in mainline, and meanwhile
>> the current implementation does prevent a DOS. So I doubt it can be
>> fully reverted - as a compromise I just didn't want the counter to
>> become ABI. TBH though, other people at LSF/MM didn't seem concerned
>> that /proc/vmstat is an ABI that we can't change (i.e. counters have
>> been presumably removed in the past already).
>>
>
> What prevents this from being a simple atomic_t that gets added to in
> __d_alloc(), subtracted from in __d_free_external_name(), and read in
> si_mem_available() and __vm_enough_memory()?
The counter is already in mainline, so I think it's easier to simply
just stop printing it now than trying to replace its implementation with
one that can cause cache ping pongs.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-30 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-25 19:14 [PATCH] mm: don't show nr_indirectly_reclaimable in /proc/vmstat Roman Gushchin
2018-04-25 19:36 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-04-25 19:37 ` David Rientjes
2018-04-25 21:01 ` Roman Gushchin
2018-04-25 21:20 ` David Rientjes
2018-04-26 20:03 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-26 21:55 ` David Rientjes
2018-04-27 9:17 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-04-27 10:55 ` Roman Gushchin
2018-04-27 11:06 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-04-27 18:41 ` David Rientjes
2018-04-27 18:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-04-30 15:30 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
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