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[109.81.30.107]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-48e25828c6dsm788025f8f.24.2026.10.20.13.35.57 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:35:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:35:56 +0200 From: Michal Hocko To: "Gregory Price (Meta)" Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kasong@tencent.com, qi.zheng@linux.dev, shakeel.butt@linux.dev, baohua@kernel.org, axelrasmussen@google.com, yuanchu@google.com, weixugc@google.com, baoquan.he@linux.dev, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, david@kernel.org, ljs@kernel.org, dave@stgolabs.net, roman.gushchin@linux.dev, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: reclaim every zone in per-node proactive reclaim Message-ID: References: <20261019185002.3428594-1-gourry@gourry.net> <179252633386.238494.13826191476140121288.b4-reply@b4> X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <179252633386.238494.13826191476140121288.b4-reply@b4> On Tue 20-10-26 15:58:53, Gregory Price (Meta) wrote: > On 2026-10-20 09:49 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > Would it make more sense to > > diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c > > index f11491ee9ed5..e07db9514e59 100644 > > --- a/mm/vmscan.c > > +++ b/mm/vmscan.c > > @@ -7963,7 +7963,7 @@ int user_proactive_reclaim(char *buf, > > int swappiness = -1; > > char *old_buf, *start; > > substring_t args[MAX_OPT_ARGS]; > > - gfp_t gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL; > > + gfp_t gfp_mask = GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE; > > > > if (!buf || (!memcg && !pgdat) || (memcg && pgdat)) > > return -EINVAL; > > > > That would take care of try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages too. > > funny enough, try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages does what my patch does: > > struct scan_control sc = { > .reclaim_idx = MAX_NR_ZONES - 1, > > > now, whether the gfp_mask should be GFP_KERNEL, that's a different > question i think. > > (tl;dr i think my patch is still correct) Ohh, right, I forgot that memcg reclaim always reclaims all zones. Tweaking the mask seems more consistent but not something I will insist on. Up to you which way to go. In any case Acked-by: Michal Hocko -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs