Re: [patch 02/11] mm: vmscan: distinguish global reclaim from globalLRU scanning

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Mon Sep 12 2011 - 19:06:19 EST


On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:57:19PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> The traditional zone reclaim code is scanning the per-zone LRU lists
> during direct reclaim and kswapd, and the per-zone per-memory cgroup
> LRU lists when reclaiming on behalf of a memory cgroup limit.
>
> Subsequent patches will convert the traditional reclaim code to
> reclaim exclusively from the per-memory cgroup LRU lists. As a
> result, using the predicate for which LRU list is scanned will no
> longer be appropriate to tell global reclaim from limit reclaim.
>
> This patch adds a global_reclaim() predicate to tell direct/kswapd
> reclaim from memory cgroup limit reclaim and substitutes it in all
> places where currently scanning_global_lru() is used for that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/vmscan.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
> 1 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 7502726..354f125 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -153,9 +153,25 @@ static LIST_HEAD(shrinker_list);
> static DECLARE_RWSEM(shrinker_rwsem);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
> -#define scanning_global_lru(sc) (!(sc)->mem_cgroup)
> +static bool global_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc)
> +{
> + return !sc->mem_cgroup;
> +}
> +
> +static bool scanning_global_lru(struct scan_control *sc)
> +{
> + return !sc->mem_cgroup;
> +}
> #else
> -#define scanning_global_lru(sc) (1)
> +static bool global_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc)
> +{
> + return true;
> +}
> +
> +static bool scanning_global_lru(struct scan_control *sc)
> +{
> + return true;
> +}
> #endif
>
> static struct zone_reclaim_stat *get_reclaim_stat(struct zone *zone,
> @@ -1011,7 +1027,7 @@ keep_lumpy:
> * back off and wait for congestion to clear because further reclaim
> * will encounter the same problem
> */
> - if (nr_dirty && nr_dirty == nr_congested && scanning_global_lru(sc))
> + if (nr_dirty && nr_dirty == nr_congested && global_reclaim(sc))
> zone_set_flag(zone, ZONE_CONGESTED);
>
> free_page_list(&free_pages);
> @@ -1330,7 +1346,7 @@ static int too_many_isolated(struct zone *zone, int file,
> if (current_is_kswapd())
> return 0;
>
> - if (!scanning_global_lru(sc))
> + if (!global_reclaim(sc))
> return 0;
>
> if (file) {
> @@ -1508,6 +1524,12 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct zone *zone,
> if (scanning_global_lru(sc)) {
> nr_taken = isolate_pages_global(nr_to_scan, &page_list,
> &nr_scanned, sc->order, reclaim_mode, zone, 0, file);
> + } else {
> + nr_taken = mem_cgroup_isolate_pages(nr_to_scan, &page_list,
> + &nr_scanned, sc->order, reclaim_mode, zone,
> + sc->mem_cgroup, 0, file);
> + }

Redundant braces.

> + if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
> zone->pages_scanned += nr_scanned;
> if (current_is_kswapd())
> __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_KSWAPD, zone,
> @@ -1515,14 +1537,6 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct zone *zone,
> else
> __count_zone_vm_events(PGSCAN_DIRECT, zone,
> nr_scanned);
> - } else {
> - nr_taken = mem_cgroup_isolate_pages(nr_to_scan, &page_list,
> - &nr_scanned, sc->order, reclaim_mode, zone,
> - sc->mem_cgroup, 0, file);
> - /*
> - * mem_cgroup_isolate_pages() keeps track of
> - * scanned pages on its own.
> - */
> }
>
> if (nr_taken == 0) {
> @@ -1647,18 +1661,16 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_pages, struct zone *zone,
> &pgscanned, sc->order,
> reclaim_mode, zone,
> 1, file);
> - zone->pages_scanned += pgscanned;
> } else {
> nr_taken = mem_cgroup_isolate_pages(nr_pages, &l_hold,
> &pgscanned, sc->order,
> reclaim_mode, zone,
> sc->mem_cgroup, 1, file);
> - /*
> - * mem_cgroup_isolate_pages() keeps track of
> - * scanned pages on its own.
> - */
> }

Ditto.


--
Kirill A. Shutemov
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