linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: vmscan: Reduce throttling due to a failure to make progress

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Message-ID: <20211130130935.GR3366@techsingularity.net>
Date:   Tue, 30 Nov 2021 13:09:35 +0000
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:     Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc:     Alexey Avramov <hakavlad@...ox.lv>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Darrick Wong <djwong@...nel.org>, regressions@...ts.linux.dev,
        Linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: vmscan: Reduce throttling due to a failure to
 make progress

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 01:51:10PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 13:00 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 11:22 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 11:14:32AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > > >       }
> > > > > +       if (2 * write_pending <= reclaimable)
> > > >
> > > > That is always true here...
> > > >
> > >
> > > Always true for you or always true in general?
> >
> > "Here" as in the boxen located at my GPS coordinates :)
> >
> > > The intent of the check is "are a majority of reclaimable pages
> > > marked WRITE_PENDING?". It's similar to the check that existed prior
> > > to 132b0d21d21f ("mm/page_alloc: remove the throttling logic from the
> > > page allocator").
> >
> > I'll put my trace_printk() back and see if I can't bend-adjust it.
> 
> As it sits, write_pending is always 0 with tail /dev/zero.
> 

That is not a surprise for the test in question as it doesn't trigger
a case where there are lots of page cache being marked dirty and write
pending.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs