Re: [PATCH 8/8] Per-container pages reclamation

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Wed May 02 2007 - 05:51:28 EST


Pavel Emelianov wrote:
Implement try_to_free_pages_in_container() to free the
pages in container that has run out of memory.

The scan_control->isolate_pages() function isolates the
container pages only.

+#ifdef CONFIG_RSS_CONTAINER
+unsigned long try_to_free_pages_in_container(struct rss_container *cnt)
+{
+ struct scan_control sc = {
+ .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
+ .may_writepage = 1,
+ .swap_cluster_max = 1,
+ .may_swap = 1,
+ .swappiness = vm_swappiness,
+ .cnt = cnt,
+ .isolate_pages = isolate_pages_in_container,
+ };
+ int node;
+ struct zone **zones;
+
+ for_each_node(node) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
+ zones = NODE_DATA(node)->node_zonelists[ZONE_HIGHMEM].zones;
+ if (do_try_to_free_pages(zones, sc.gfp_mask, &sc))
+ return 1;
+#endif
+ zones = NODE_DATA(node)->node_zonelists[ZONE_NORMAL].zones;
+ if (do_try_to_free_pages(zones, sc.gfp_mask, &sc))
+ return 1;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif
+

Hi, Pavel,

This patch fixes a bug in the RSS controller, where we walk through all
nodes during reclaim in try_to_free_pages_in_container(). Instead of
for_each_node(), we now use for_each_online_node() so that we do not
end up with invalid zones from nodes that are not online.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

mm/vmscan.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~rss-fix-nodescan mm/vmscan.c
--- linux-2.6.20/mm/vmscan.c~rss-fix-nodescan 2007-05-02 14:47:09.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.20-balbir/mm/vmscan.c 2007-05-02 14:47:25.000000000 +0530
@@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages_in_conta
int node;
struct zone **zones;

- for_each_node(node) {
+ for_each_online_node(node) {
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
zones = NODE_DATA(node)->node_zonelists[ZONE_HIGHMEM].zones;
if (do_try_to_free_pages(zones, sc.gfp_mask, &sc))
_

--
Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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