Re: [PATCH][for -mm] fix accounting in vmscan.c for memorycontroller

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Tue Dec 11 2007 - 06:21:25 EST


On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:26:44 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Without this, ALLOCSTALL and PGSCAN_DIRECT increases too much unless
> there is no memory shortage.
Sorry,

Without this, ALLOCSTALL and PGSCAN_DIRECT increases too much even if
^^^^^^^
there is no memory shortage.

-Kame


>
> against 2.6.24-rc4-mm1.
>
> -Kame
>
> ==
> Some amount of accounting is done while page reclaiming.
>
> Now, there are 2 types of page reclaim (if memory controller is used)
> - global: shortage of (global) pages.
> - under cgroup: use up to limit.
>
> I think 2 accountings, ALLOCSTALL and DIRECT should be accounted only under
> global lru scan. They are accounted against memory shortage at alloc_pages().
>
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> mm/vmscan.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.24-rc4-mm1/mm/vmscan.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.24-rc4-mm1.orig/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ linux-2.6.24-rc4-mm1/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -896,8 +896,9 @@ static unsigned long shrink_inactive_lis
> if (current_is_kswapd()) {
> __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_KSWAPD, zone, nr_scan);
> __count_vm_events(KSWAPD_STEAL, nr_freed);
> - } else
> + } else if (scan_global_lru(sc))
> __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_DIRECT, zone, nr_scan);
> +
> __count_zone_vm_events(PGSTEAL, zone, nr_freed);
>
> if (nr_taken == 0)
> @@ -1333,7 +1334,8 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_page
> unsigned long lru_pages = 0;
> int i;
>
> - count_vm_event(ALLOCSTALL);
> + if (scan_global_lru(sc))
> + count_vm_event(ALLOCSTALL);
> /*
> * mem_cgroup will not do shrink_slab.
> */
>
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