Kirill, please review.
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Best regards,
Konstantin Khorenko,
Virtuozzo Linux Kernel Team
On 11/25/2015 06:42 PM, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
The comment to shrink_slab states that the portion of kmem objects
scanned by it equals the portion of lru pages scanned by shrink_zone
over shrinker->seeks.
shrinker->seeks is supposed to be equal to the number of disk seeks
required to recreated an object. It is usually set to DEFAULT_SEEKS (2),
which is quite logical, because most kmem objects (e.g. dentry or inode)
require random IO to reread (seek to read and seek back).
That said, one would expect that dcache is scanned two times less
intensively than page cache, which sounds sane as dentries are generally
more costly to recreate.
However, the formula for distributing memory pressure between slab and
lru actually looks as follows (see do_shrink_slab):
lru_scanned
objs_to_scan = objs_total * --------------- * 4 / shrinker->seeks
lru_reclaimable
That is dcache, as well as most of other slab caches, is scanned two
times more aggressively than page cache.
Fix this by dropping '4' from the equation above.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavy...@virtuozzo.com>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 9b1c73bb465c..eadc08b7a5d6 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ static unsigned long do_shrink_slab(struct shrink_control
*shrinkctl,
nr = atomic_long_xchg(&shrinker->nr_deferred[nid], 0);
total_scan = nr;
- delta = (4 * nr_scanned) / shrinker->seeks;
+ delta = nr_scanned / shrinker->seeks;
delta *= max_pass;
do_div(delta, nr_eligible + 1);
total_scan += delta;
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