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Date:	Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:30:07 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp" <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	"bsingharora@...il.com" <bsingharora@...il.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [Cleanup] memcg: export memory cgroup's swappiness v2

On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:16:24 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:06:53 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:20:59 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 08:50:13 +0900
> > > KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:01:34 -0700
> > > > Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Ok, I'll check it. Maybe I miss !CONFIG_SWAP...
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > v4 here. Thank you for pointing out. I could think of several ways but
> > > maybe this one is good because using vm_swappines with !CONFIG_SWAP seems
> > > to be a bug.
> > 
> > No, it isn't a bug - swappiness also controls the kernel's eagerness to
> > unmap and reclaim mmapped pagecache.
> > 
> 
> Oh, really ? I didn't understand that.
> 
Hmm, anyway, this new version of fix seems better.
==
>From 7daf93a277e19026bb6edef3e0ac01bbd31dcb5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:35:57 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] export memory cgroup's swappines by mem_cgroup_swappiness()

Each memory cgroup has 'swappiness' value and it can be accessed by
get_swappiness(memcg). The major user is try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages()
and swappiness is passed by argument. It's propagated by scan_control.

get_swappiness is static function but some planned updates will need to
get swappiness from files other than memcontrol.c
This patch exports get_swappiness() as mem_cgroup_swappiness().
By this, we can remove the argument of swapiness from try_to_free...
and drop swappiness from scan_control. only memcg uses it.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

Changelog:
  - move definistions out of CONFIG_SWAP.
  - fixed/tested allyesconfig/allnoconfig compile failure.
  - adjusted signedness to vm_swappiness.
  - drop swappiness from scan_control
---
 include/linux/swap.h |   13 +++++++++----
 mm/memcontrol.c      |   15 +++++++--------
 mm/vmscan.c          |   23 ++++++++++-------------
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index a273468..28f1490 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -252,11 +252,9 @@ static inline void lru_cache_add_file(struct page *page)
 extern unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order,
 					gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *mask);
 extern unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
-						  gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
-						  unsigned int swappiness);
+						  gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap);
 extern unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
 						gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
-						unsigned int swappiness,
 						struct zone *zone,
 						unsigned long *nr_scanned);
 extern int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, int mode, int file);
@@ -299,7 +297,14 @@ static inline void scan_unevictable_unregister_node(struct node *node)
 
 extern int kswapd_run(int nid);
 extern void kswapd_stop(int nid);
-
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEM_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
+extern int mem_cgroup_swappiness(struct mem_cgroup *mem);
+#else
+static inline int mem_cgroup_swappiness(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
+{
+	return vm_swappiness;
+}
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
 /* linux/mm/page_io.c */
 extern int swap_readpage(struct page *);
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 3e7d5e6..db70176 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
 	atomic_t	oom_lock;
 	atomic_t	refcnt;
 
-	unsigned int	swappiness;
+	int	swappiness;
 	/* OOM-Killer disable */
 	int		oom_kill_disable;
 
@@ -1330,7 +1330,7 @@ static unsigned long mem_cgroup_margin(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
 	return margin >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 }
 
-static unsigned int get_swappiness(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+int mem_cgroup_swappiness(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
 	struct cgroup *cgrp = memcg->css.cgroup;
 
@@ -1776,12 +1776,11 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(struct mem_cgroup *root_mem,
 		/* we use swappiness of local cgroup */
 		if (check_soft) {
 			ret = mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(victim, gfp_mask,
-				noswap, get_swappiness(victim), zone,
-				&nr_scanned);
+				noswap, zone, &nr_scanned);
 			*total_scanned += nr_scanned;
 		} else
 			ret = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(victim, gfp_mask,
-						noswap, get_swappiness(victim));
+						noswap);
 		css_put(&victim->css);
 		/*
 		 * At shrinking usage, we can't check we should stop here or
@@ -3826,7 +3825,7 @@ try_to_free:
 			goto out;
 		}
 		progress = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(mem, GFP_KERNEL,
-						false, get_swappiness(mem));
+						false);
 		if (!progress) {
 			nr_retries--;
 			/* maybe some writeback is necessary */
@@ -4288,7 +4287,7 @@ static u64 mem_cgroup_swappiness_read(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft)
 {
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgrp);
 
-	return get_swappiness(memcg);
+	return mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg);
 }
 
 static int mem_cgroup_swappiness_write(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft,
@@ -4997,7 +4996,7 @@ mem_cgroup_create(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cont)
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mem->oom_notify);
 
 	if (parent)
-		mem->swappiness = get_swappiness(parent);
+		mem->swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(parent);
 	atomic_set(&mem->refcnt, 1);
 	mem->move_charge_at_immigrate = 0;
 	mutex_init(&mem->thresholds_lock);
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 4f49535..fb37699 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -95,8 +95,6 @@ struct scan_control {
 	/* Can pages be swapped as part of reclaim? */
 	int may_swap;
 
-	int swappiness;
-
 	int order;
 
 	/*
@@ -1729,6 +1727,13 @@ static unsigned long shrink_list(enum lru_list lru, unsigned long nr_to_scan,
 	return shrink_inactive_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc, priority, file);
 }
 
+static int vmscan_swappiness(struct scan_control *sc)
+{
+	if (scanning_global_lru(sc))
+		return vm_swappiness;
+	return mem_cgroup_swappiness(sc->mem_cgroup);
+}
+
 /*
  * Determine how aggressively the anon and file LRU lists should be
  * scanned.  The relative value of each set of LRU lists is determined
@@ -1789,8 +1794,8 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc,
 	 * With swappiness at 100, anonymous and file have the same priority.
 	 * This scanning priority is essentially the inverse of IO cost.
 	 */
-	anon_prio = sc->swappiness;
-	file_prio = 200 - sc->swappiness;
+	anon_prio = vmscan_swappiness(sc);
+	file_prio = 200 - vmscan_swappiness(sc);
 
 	/*
 	 * OK, so we have swap space and a fair amount of page cache
@@ -2179,7 +2184,6 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order,
 		.nr_to_reclaim = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
 		.may_unmap = 1,
 		.may_swap = 1,
-		.swappiness = vm_swappiness,
 		.order = order,
 		.mem_cgroup = NULL,
 		.nodemask = nodemask,
@@ -2203,7 +2207,6 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order,
 
 unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
 						gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
-						unsigned int swappiness,
 						struct zone *zone,
 						unsigned long *nr_scanned)
 {
@@ -2213,7 +2216,6 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
 		.may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
 		.may_unmap = 1,
 		.may_swap = !noswap,
-		.swappiness = swappiness,
 		.order = 0,
 		.mem_cgroup = mem,
 	};
@@ -2242,8 +2244,7 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
 
 unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *mem_cont,
 					   gfp_t gfp_mask,
-					   bool noswap,
-					   unsigned int swappiness)
+					   bool noswap)
 {
 	struct zonelist *zonelist;
 	unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
@@ -2253,7 +2254,6 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *mem_cont,
 		.may_unmap = 1,
 		.may_swap = !noswap,
 		.nr_to_reclaim = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
-		.swappiness = swappiness,
 		.order = 0,
 		.mem_cgroup = mem_cont,
 		.nodemask = NULL, /* we don't care the placement */
@@ -2403,7 +2403,6 @@ static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order,
 		 * we want to put equal scanning pressure on each zone.
 		 */
 		.nr_to_reclaim = ULONG_MAX,
-		.swappiness = vm_swappiness,
 		.order = order,
 		.mem_cgroup = NULL,
 	};
@@ -2862,7 +2861,6 @@ unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned long nr_to_reclaim)
 		.may_writepage = 1,
 		.nr_to_reclaim = nr_to_reclaim,
 		.hibernation_mode = 1,
-		.swappiness = vm_swappiness,
 		.order = 0,
 	};
 	struct shrink_control shrink = {
@@ -3049,7 +3047,6 @@ static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
 		.nr_to_reclaim = max_t(unsigned long, nr_pages,
 				       SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX),
 		.gfp_mask = gfp_mask,
-		.swappiness = vm_swappiness,
 		.order = order,
 	};
 	struct shrink_control shrink = {
-- 
1.7.4.1


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