On Tue, 9 Apr 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > Currently, freed pages via rcu is not counted for reclaimed_slab, because > it is freed in rcu context, not current task context. But, this free is > initiated by this task, so counting this into this task's reclaimed_slab > is meaningful to decide whether we continue reclaim, or not. > So change code to count these pages for this task's reclaimed_slab.
slab->reclaim_state guides the reclaim actions in vmscan.c. With this patch slab->reclaim_state could get quite a high value without new pages being available for allocation. slab->reclaim_state will only be updated when the RCU period ends. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
