linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/10] mm: remove LRU balancing effect of temporary page isolation

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Date:	Mon, 06 Jun 2016 21:11:18 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] mm: remove LRU balancing effect of temporary page
 isolation

On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 18:15 -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 05:56:09PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 15:48 -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > > 
> > >  
> > > +void lru_cache_putback(struct page *page)
> > > +{
> > > +	struct pagevec *pvec = &get_cpu_var(lru_putback_pvec);
> > > +
> > > +	get_page(page);
> > > +	if (!pagevec_space(pvec))
> > > +		__pagevec_lru_add(pvec, false);
> > > +	pagevec_add(pvec, page);
> > > +	put_cpu_var(lru_putback_pvec);
> > > +}
> > > 
> > Wait a moment.
> > 
> > So now we have a putback_lru_page, which does adjust
> > the statistics, and an lru_cache_putback which does
> > not?
> > 
> > This function could use a name that is not as similar
> > to its counterpart :)
> lru_cache_add() and lru_cache_putback() are the two sibling
> functions,
> where the first influences the LRU balance and the second one
> doesn't.
> 
> The last hunk in the patch (obscured by showing the label instead of
> the function name as context) updates putback_lru_page() from using
> lru_cache_add() to using lru_cache_putback().
> 
> Does that make sense?

That means the page reclaim does not update the
"rotated" statistics.  That seems undesirable,
no?  Am I overlooking something?


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