Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2021-09-29

Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: Replace shrinker_rwsem trylocks with SRCU protection

From: Sultan Alsawaf <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-27 16:54:05
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 10:36:36AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
Can you be more specific about those scenarios please?
I see frequent tmpfs mounts/unmounts in Android which result in lots of
superblocks being created and destroyed, and each superblock has its own
shrinker.
I have a vague recollection that this approach has been proposed in the
past. Have you checked previous attempts?
I wasn't aware that there were previous attempts. Is this [1] the previous
attempt you're thinking of? It seems like the thread just died out. Was the main
gripe that always enabling CONFIG_SRCU increased the kernel's size too much when
tinyfication was desired?

Sultan

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/153365347929.19074.12509495712735843805.stgit@localhost.localdomain/ (local)
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