Re: [PATCH 08/10] mm: vmscan: Have kswapd shrink slab only once per priority

[Andi Kleen]

Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> writes:

> If kswaps fails to make progress but continues to shrink slab then it'll
> either discard all of slab or consume CPU uselessly scanning shrinkers.
> This patch causes kswapd to only call the shrinkers once per priority.

Great. This was too aggressive for a long time. Probably still needs
more intelligence in the shrinkers itself to be really good though
(e.g. the old defrag heuristics in dcache)

-Andi
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