On Fri 02-11-18 17:25:58, Roman Gushchin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 05:51:47PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Fri 02-11-18 16:22:41, Roman Gushchin wrote: [...] > > > 2) We do forget to scan the last page in the LRU list. So if we ended up > > > with > > > 1-page long LRU, it can stay there basically forever. > > > > Why > > /* > > * If the cgroup's already been deleted, make sure to > > * scrape out the remaining cache. > > */ > > if (!scan && !mem_cgroup_online(memcg)) > > scan = min(size, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX); > > > > in get_scan_count doesn't work for that case? > > No, it doesn't. Let's look at the whole picture: > > size = lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, lru, sc->reclaim_idx); > scan = size >> sc->priority; > /* > * If the cgroup's already been deleted, make sure to > * scrape out the remaining cache. > */ > if (!scan && !mem_cgroup_online(memcg)) > scan = min(size, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX); > > If size == 1, scan == 0 => scan = min(1, 32) == 1. > And after proportional adjustment we'll have 0.
My friday brain hurst when looking at this but if it doesn't work as advertized then it should be fixed. I do not see any of your patches to touch this logic so how come it would work after them applied? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
