Re: [PATCH] mm/memcontrol.c: drains percpu charge caches in memory.reclaim
From: Michal Koutný
Date: Thu Nov 10 2022 - 09:42:52 EST
Hello Jialin.
On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 02:53:16PM +0800, Lu Jialin <lujialin4@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When user use memory.reclaim to reclaim memory, after drain percpu lru
> caches, drain percpu charge caches for given memcg stock in the hope
> of introducing more evictable pages.
Do you have any data on materialization of this hope?
IIUC, the stock is useful for batched accounting to page_counter but it
doesn't represent real pages. I.e. your change may reduce the
page_counter value but it would not release any pages. Or have I missed
a way how it helps with the reclaim?
Thanks,
Michal
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