On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 02:33:58PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 02:39:19PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> > Swap cache pages are freed aggressively if swap is nearly full (>50%
> > currently), because otherwise we are likely to stop scanning anonymous
> > when we near the swap limit even if there is plenty of freeable swap
> > cache pages. We should follow the same trend in case of memory cgroup,
> > which has its own swap limit.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavy...@virtuozzo.com>
>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
>
> One note:
>
> > @@ -5839,6 +5839,29 @@ long mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(struct mem_cgroup
> > *memcg)
> > return nr_swap_pages;
> > }
> >
> > +bool mem_cgroup_swap_full(struct page *page)
> > +{
> > + struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> > +
> > + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
> > +
> > + if (vm_swap_full())
> > + return true;
> > + if (!do_swap_account || !PageSwapCache(page))
> > + return false;
>
> The callers establish PageSwapCache() under the page lock, which makes
> sense since they only inquire about the swap state when deciding what
> to do with a swapcache page at hand. So this check seems unnecessary.
Yeah, you're right, we don't need it here. Will remove it in v2.
Besides, I think I should have inserted cgroup_subsys_on_dflt check in
this function so that it wouldn't check memcg->swap limit in case the
legacy hierarchy is used. Will do.
Thanks,
Vladimir
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