On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:54 AM Yang Shi [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:24 AM Shakeel Butt [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 9:46 AM Yang Shi [off-list ref] wrote:

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The number of deferred objects might get windup to an absurd number, and it
results in clamp of slab objects.  It is undesirable for sustaining workingset.

So shrink deferred objects proportional to priority and cap nr_deferred to twice
of cache items.

The idea is borrowed from Dave Chinner's patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20191031234618.15403-13-david@fromorbit.com/ (local)

Tested with kernel build and vfs metadata heavy workload in our production
environment, no regression is spotted so far.

Did you run both of these workloads in the same cgroup or separate cgroups?

Both are covered.

Have you tried just this patch i.e. without the first 12 patches?