linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm, vmscan: consider isolated pages in zone_reclaimable

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Date:	Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:53:35 +0300
From:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	<linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm, vmscan: consider isolated pages in
 zone_reclaimable_pages

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 12:54:59PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> 
> zone_reclaimable_pages counts how many pages are reclaimable in
> the given zone. This currently includes all pages on file lrus and
> anon lrus if there is an available swap storage. We do not consider
> NR_ISOLATED_{ANON,FILE} counters though which is not correct because
> these counters reflect temporarily isolated pages which are still
> reclaimable because they either get back to their LRU or get freed
> either by the page reclaim or page migration.
> 
> The number of these pages might be sufficiently high to confuse users of
> zone_reclaimable_pages (e.g. mbind can migrate large ranges of memory at
> once).

Sounds reasonable to me.

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>

Thanks,
Vladimir

> 
> Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index a4507ecaefbf..946d348f5040 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -197,11 +197,13 @@ static unsigned long zone_reclaimable_pages(struct zone *zone)
>  	unsigned long nr;
>  
>  	nr = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
> -	     zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
> +	     zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE) +
> +	     zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_FILE);
>  
>  	if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
>  		nr += zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON) +
> -		      zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
> +		      zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON) +
> +		      zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON);
>  
>  	return nr;
>  }
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