linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] mm:vmscan: fix shrink sc parameters issue

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Message-ID: <7a94c962-6137-47c1-be4c-ef2a0614bfd2@vivo.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 09:27:58 +0800
From: zhiguojiang <justinjiang@...o.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
 Chris Li <chrisl@...nel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
 Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
 Dan Schatzberg <schatzberg.dan@...il.com>,
 Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>, Yue Zhao <findns94@...il.com>,
 Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-mm@...ck.org, opensource.kernel@...o.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] mm:vmscan: fix shrink sc parameters issue



在 2024/1/11 21:43, Johannes Weiner 写道:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 08:24:51PM +0800, Zhiguo Jiang wrote:
>> The values of struct scan_control's members obtained by
>> prepare_scan_control() are always from root_mem_cgroup, rather than
>> the memcg where the shrinked folio is actually located, such as
>> sc->anon_cost, sc->file_cost, sc->may_deactivate and so on. This is
>> an inaccurate sc values for the actual situation of the current
>> shrinking memcg. so we need fix the values of struct scan_control's
>> members are corresponding to the current shrinking memcg.
> You don't seem to understand how cgroup reclaim works.
It seems that the actual memcg's lruvec->anon_cost/file_cost values are 
not used in code exclude target_memcg ?
>
> Nacked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>