Mel Gorman <[email protected]> writes: > If kswaps fails to make progress but continues to shrink slab then it'll > either discard all of slab or consume CPU uselessly scanning shrinkers. > This patch causes kswapd to only call the shrinkers once per priority.
Great. This was too aggressive for a long time. Probably still needs more intelligence in the shrinkers itself to be really good though (e.g. the old defrag heuristics in dcache) -Andi -- [email protected] -- Speaking for myself only -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
