Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752129Ab3IRXwd (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:52:33 -0400 Received: from ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.129]:61665 "EHLO ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751661Ab3IRXwc (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:52:32 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlQGAMk7OlJ5Lapl/2dsb2JhbABbgwfCN4EgF3SCJQEBBAEnCwEjIwULCAMYCSUPBSUDIROHfQW6RhaPUQeEHgOXepF1gWaBUCo Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:52:28 +1000 From: Dave Chinner To: Knut Petersen Cc: Daniel Vetter , Linux MM , Rik van Riel , Intel Graphics Development , Johannes Weiner , LKML , DRI Development , Michal Hocko , Mel Gorman , Glauber Costa , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] [RFC] mm/shrinker: Add a shrinker flag to always shrink a bit Message-ID: <20130918235228.GG9901@dastard> References: <1379495401-18279-1-git-send-email-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> <5239829F.4080601@t-online.de> <20130918203822.GA4330@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20130918203822.GA4330@dastard> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2607 Lines: 71 [my keyboard my be on the fritz - it's not typing what I'm thinking...] On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 06:38:22AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:38:23PM +0200, Knut Petersen wrote: > > On 18.09.2013 11:10, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > > > Just now I prepared a patch changing the same function in vmscan.c > > >Also, this needs to be rebased to the new shrinker api in 3.12, I > > >simply haven't rolled my trees forward yet. > > > > Well, you should. Since commit 81e49f shrinker->count_objects might be > > set to SHRINK_STOP, causing shrink_slab_node() to complain loud and often: > > > > [ 1908.234595] shrink_slab: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0/0x9c negative objects to delete nr=-xxxxxxxxx > > > > The kernel emitted a few thousand log lines like the one quoted above during the > > last few days on my system. > > > > >diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c > > >index 2cff0d4..d81f6e0 100644 > > >--- a/mm/vmscan.c > > >+++ b/mm/vmscan.c > > >@@ -254,6 +254,10 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrink, > > > total_scan = max_pass; > > > } > > >+ /* Always try to shrink a bit to make forward progress. */ > > >+ if (shrinker->evicts_to_page_lru) > > >+ total_scan = max_t(long, total_scan, batch_size); > > >+ > > At that place the error message is already emitted. > > > /* > > > * We need to avoid excessive windup on filesystem shrinkers > > > * due to large numbers of GFP_NOFS allocations causing the > > > > Have a look at the attached patch. It fixes my problem with the erroneous/misleading > > error messages, and I think it?s right to just bail out early if SHRINK_STOP is found. > > > > Do you agree ? > > No, that's wrong. ->count_objects should never ass SHRINK_STOP. *pass > Indeed, it should always return a count of objects in the cache, > regardless of the context. > > SHRINK_STOP is for ->scan_objects to tell the shrinker it can make *can't > any progress due to the context it is called in. This allows the > shirnker to defer the work to another call in a different context. > However, if ->count-objects doesn't return a count, the work that > was supposed to be done cannot be deferred, and that is what *why > ->count_objects should always return the number of objects in the > cache. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/