linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] mm/lru: add per lruvec lock for memcg

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Date:   Mon, 18 Nov 2019 10:44:57 +0800
From:   Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
Cc:     Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
        Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>,
        Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Arun KS <arunks@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] mm/lru: add per lruvec lock for memcg



在 2019/11/16 下午2:28, Shakeel Butt 写道:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 7:15 PM Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>>
>> Currently memcg still use per node pgdat->lru_lock to guard its lruvec.
>> That causes some lru_lock contention in a high container density system.
>>
>> If we can use per lruvec lock, that could relief much of the lru_lock
>> contention.
>>
>> The later patches will replace the pgdat->lru_lock with lruvec->lru_lock
>> and show the performance benefit by benchmarks.
> 
> Merge this patch with actual usage. No need to have a separate patch.

Thanks for comment, Shakeel!

Yes, but considering the 3rd, huge and un-splitable patch of actully replacing, I'd rather to pull sth out from 
it. Ty to make patches a bit more readable, Do you think so?

Thanks
Alex