Re: [PATCH] Revert "mm: vmpressure: fix sending wrong events on underflow"

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Wed Jun 07 2017 - 02:14:00 EST


On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 12:56:57PM +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
> On 2017/6/7 11:55, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 11:08:37AM +0800, zhongjiang wrote:
> >> This reverts commit e1587a4945408faa58d0485002c110eb2454740c.
> >>
> >> THP lru page is reclaimed , THP is split to normal page and loop again.
> >> reclaimed pages should not be bigger than nr_scan. because of each
> >> loop will increase nr_scan counter.
> > Unfortunately, there is still underflow issue caused by slab pages as
> > Vinayak reported in description of e1587a4945408 so we cannot revert.
> > Please correct comment instead of removing the logic.
> >
> > Thanks.
> we calculate the vmpressue based on the Lru page, exclude the slab pages by previous
> discussion. is it not this?
>

IIRC, It is not merged into mainline although mmotm has it.