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Message-ID: <b3a200b7-e9c5-4627-409c-e198ac1dc30a@suse.cz>
Date:   Thu, 9 Mar 2023 10:23:57 +0100
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        tkhai@...ru, hannes@...xchg.org, shakeelb@...gle.com,
        mhocko@...nel.org, roman.gushchin@...ux.dev, muchun.song@...ux.dev,
        david@...hat.com, shy828301@...il.com, rppt@...nel.org
Cc:     sultan@...neltoast.com, dave@...olabs.net,
        penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp, paulmck@...nel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/8] mm: vmscan: add shrinker_srcu_generation

On 3/7/23 07:56, Qi Zheng wrote:
> From: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...ru>
> 
> After we make slab shrink lockless with SRCU, the longest
> sleep unregister_shrinker() will be a sleep waiting for
> all do_shrink_slab() calls.
> 
> To aviod long unbreakable action in the unregister_shrinker(),

     ^ avoid

> add shrinker_srcu_generation to restore a check similar to the
> rwsem_is_contendent() check that we had before.
> 
> And for memcg slab shrink, we unlock SRCU and continue
> iterations from the next shrinker id.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...ru>
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>

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


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