linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm: shrinker: make shrinker not depend on memcg kmem

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Date:   Tue, 11 Jun 2019 22:07:54 -0700
From:   Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Cc:     ktkhai@...tuozzo.com, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
        hannes@...xchg.org, mhocko@...e.com, hughd@...gle.com,
        shakeelb@...gle.com, rientjes@...gle.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm: shrinker: make shrinker not depend on memcg kmem



On 6/11/19 7:52 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 02:07:39PM +0800, Yang Shi wrote:
>> Currently shrinker is just allocated and can work when memcg kmem is
>> enabled.  But, THP deferred split shrinker is not slab shrinker, it
>> doesn't make too much sense to have such shrinker depend on memcg kmem.
>> It should be able to reclaim THP even though memcg kmem is disabled.
>>
>> Introduce a new shrinker flag, SHRINKER_NONSLAB, for non-slab shrinker,
>> i.e. THP deferred split shrinker.  When memcg kmem is disabled, just
>> such shrinkers can be called in shrinking memcg slab.
> Looks like it breaks bisectability. It has to be done before makeing
> shrinker memcg-aware, hasn't it?

No, it doesn't break bisectability. But, THP shrinker just can be called 
with kmem charge enabled without this patch.

>