Re: [PATCH -mm 1/2] mm: vmscan: account slab pages on memcg reclaim

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Mon Jan 12 2015 - 17:18:53 EST


On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:30:37PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> Since try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages() can now call slab shrinkers, we
> should initialize reclaim_state and account reclaimed slab pages in
> scan_control->nr_reclaimed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/vmscan.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 16f3e45742d6..b2c041139a51 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -367,13 +367,16 @@ static unsigned long do_shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrinkctl,
> * the ->seeks setting of the shrink function, which indicates the
> * cost to recreate an object relative to that of an LRU page.
> *
> - * Returns the number of reclaimed slab objects.
> + * Returns the number of reclaimed slab objects. The number of reclaimed
> + * pages is added to *@ret_nr_reclaimed.
>
> static unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid,
> struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> unsigned long nr_scanned,
> - unsigned long nr_eligible)
> + unsigned long nr_eligible,
> + unsigned long *ret_nr_reclaimed)

Can't we just return the number of pages directly from this function?

> @@ -426,7 +434,7 @@ void drop_slab_node(int nid)
> freed = 0;
> do {
> freed += shrink_slab(GFP_KERNEL, nid, memcg,
> - 1000, 1000);
> + 1000, 1000, &nr_reclaimed);
> } while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL)) != NULL);
> } while (freed > 10);

This is the only caller that cares about the return value, and it's a
magic number that could probably be changed to comparing with a magic
number of pages instead.
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