linux-kernel - Re: [v7 PATCH 09/12] mm: vmscan: use per memcg nr

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Message-ID: <20210210012726.GO524633@carbon.DHCP.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Tue, 9 Feb 2021 17:27:26 -0800
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>
CC:     <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>, <vbabka@...e.cz>, <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        <david@...morbit.com>, <hannes@...xchg.org>, <mhocko@...e.com>,
        <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [v7 PATCH 09/12] mm: vmscan: use per memcg nr_deferred of
 shrinker

On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 09:46:43AM -0800, Yang Shi wrote:
> Use per memcg's nr_deferred for memcg aware shrinkers.  The shrinker's nr_deferred
> will be used in the following cases:
>     1. Non memcg aware shrinkers
>     2. !CONFIG_MEMCG
>     3. memcg is disabled by boot parameter
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>
> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index d4b030a0b2a9..748aa6e90f83 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -368,6 +368,24 @@ static void unregister_memcg_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
>  	up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
>  }
>  
> +static long count_nr_deferred_memcg(int nid, struct shrinker *shrinker,
> +				    struct mem_cgroup *memcg)

"Count" is not associated with xchg() semantics in my head, but I don't know
what's the better version. Maybe steal or pop?

Otherwise the patch looks good to me.

Thanks!