linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/27] mm, vmscan: Make shrink

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Message-ID: <5c367d62-807d-77e8-6206-58fc207ecb0d@suse.cz>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2016 17:42:06 +0200
From:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/27] mm, vmscan: Make shrink_node decisions more
 node-centric

On 06/21/2016 04:15 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Earlier patches focused on having direct reclaim and kswapd use data that
> is node-centric for reclaiming but shrink_node() itself still uses too much
> zone information. This patch removes unnecessary zone-based information
> with the most important decision being whether to continue reclaim or
> not. Some memcg APIs are adjusted as a result even though memcg itself
> still uses some zone information.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>