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From:   Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 16 Oct 2021 16:17:39 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: skip current when memcg reclaim
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On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 11:06 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 01:00:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:15:29 +0800 Huangzhaoyang <huangzhaoyang@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>
> > >
> > > Sibling thread of the same process could refault the reclaimed pages
> > > in the same time, which would be typical in None global reclaim and
> > > introduce thrashing.
> >
> > "None" -> "node", I assume?
>
> I think that's "non-global", ie memcg based.
It is exactly what I mean. memcg based reclaim could be worse for page
thrashing.