[PATCH 07/31] mm, vmscan: remove balance gap

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Fri Jul 01 2016 - 16:03:10 EST


The balance gap was introduced to apply equal pressure to all zones when
reclaiming for a higher zone. With node-based LRU, the need for the
balance gap is removed and the code is dead so remove it.

[vbabka@xxxxxxx: Also remove KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/swap.h | 9 ---------
mm/vmscan.c | 19 ++++++++-----------
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index c82f916008b7..916e2eddecd6 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -157,15 +157,6 @@ enum {
#define SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX 32UL
#define COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX

-/*
- * Ratio between zone->managed_pages and the "gap" that above the per-zone
- * "high_wmark". While balancing nodes, We allow kswapd to shrink zones that
- * do not meet the (high_wmark + gap) watermark, even which already met the
- * high_wmark, in order to provide better per-zone lru behavior. We are ok to
- * spend not more than 1% of the memory for this zone balancing "gap".
- */
-#define KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO 100
-
#define SWAP_MAP_MAX 0x3e /* Max duplication count, in first swap_map */
#define SWAP_MAP_BAD 0x3f /* Note pageblock is bad, in first swap_map */
#define SWAP_HAS_CACHE 0x40 /* Flag page is cached, in first swap_map */
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 7b382b90b145..a52167eabc96 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2518,7 +2518,7 @@ static bool shrink_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc,
*/
static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order, int classzone_idx)
{
- unsigned long balance_gap, watermark;
+ unsigned long watermark;
bool watermark_ok;

/*
@@ -2527,9 +2527,7 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order, int classzone_
* there is a buffer of free pages available to give compaction
* a reasonable chance of completing and allocating the page
*/
- balance_gap = min(low_wmark_pages(zone), DIV_ROUND_UP(
- zone->managed_pages, KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO));
- watermark = high_wmark_pages(zone) + balance_gap + (2UL << order);
+ watermark = high_wmark_pages(zone) + (2UL << order);
watermark_ok = zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, 0, watermark, classzone_idx);

/*
@@ -3000,10 +2998,9 @@ static void age_active_anon(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
} while (memcg);
}

-static bool zone_balanced(struct zone *zone, int order,
- unsigned long balance_gap, int classzone_idx)
+static bool zone_balanced(struct zone *zone, int order, int classzone_idx)
{
- unsigned long mark = high_wmark_pages(zone) + balance_gap;
+ unsigned long mark = high_wmark_pages(zone);

return zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order, mark, classzone_idx);
}
@@ -3045,7 +3042,7 @@ static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining,
if (!populated_zone(zone))
continue;

- if (zone_balanced(zone, order, 0, classzone_idx))
+ if (zone_balanced(zone, order, classzone_idx))
return true;
}

@@ -3148,7 +3145,7 @@ static int balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx)
break;
}

- if (!zone_balanced(zone, order, 0, 0)) {
+ if (!zone_balanced(zone, order, 0)) {
classzone_idx = i;
break;
} else {
@@ -3216,7 +3213,7 @@ static int balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx)
if (!populated_zone(zone))
continue;

- if (zone_balanced(zone, sc.order, 0, classzone_idx)) {
+ if (zone_balanced(zone, sc.order, classzone_idx)) {
clear_bit(PGDAT_CONGESTED, &pgdat->flags);
clear_bit(PGDAT_DIRTY, &pgdat->flags);
goto out;
@@ -3427,7 +3424,7 @@ void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order, enum zone_type classzone_idx)
}
if (!waitqueue_active(&pgdat->kswapd_wait))
return;
- if (zone_balanced(zone, order, 0, 0))
+ if (zone_balanced(zone, order, 0))
return;

trace_mm_vmscan_wakeup_kswapd(pgdat->node_id, zone_idx(zone), order);
--
2.6.4