linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/4] vmscan per-cgroup reclaim fixes

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Date:   Fri, 23 Mar 2018 18:20:25 +0300
From:   Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] vmscan per-cgroup reclaim fixes

Changes since v1:
 - Added acks.
 - Dropped "mm/vmscan: replace mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive with shrink_page_list tracepoint"
    patch. It's better to avoid changing the tracepoint as some people may be used to it.
    Removing 'nr_scanned' and 'file' arguments is also not very good. Yes, these numbers could
    be obtained from mm_vmscan_lru_isolate tracepoint, but it's easier when it's all in one place.

 - Compare with nr_writeback,dirty, etc only isolated file pages as it always was.
 - Minor changelog tweaks.

Andrey Ryabinin (4):
  mm/vmscan: Update stale comments
  mm/vmscan: remove redundant current_may_throttle() check
  mm/vmscan: Don't change pgdat state on base of a single LRU list
    state.
  mm/vmscan: Don't mess with pgdat->flags in memcg reclaim.

 include/linux/backing-dev.h |   2 +-
 include/linux/memcontrol.h  |   2 +
 mm/backing-dev.c            |  19 ++---
 mm/vmscan.c                 | 166 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 4 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)

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2.16.1