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Message-ID: <46385F07.9070608@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 15:21:03 +0530
From: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...ru>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>, devel@...nvz.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>,
Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@...ibm.com>,
Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Rohit Seth <rohitseth@...gle.com>,
Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] Per-container pages reclamation
Pavel Emelianov wrote:
> Implement try_to_free_pages_in_container() to free the
> pages in container that has run out of memory.
>
> The scan_control->isolate_pages() function isolates the
> container pages only.
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_RSS_CONTAINER
> +unsigned long try_to_free_pages_in_container(struct rss_container *cnt)
> +{
> + struct scan_control sc = {
> + .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
> + .may_writepage = 1,
> + .swap_cluster_max = 1,
> + .may_swap = 1,
> + .swappiness = vm_swappiness,
> + .cnt = cnt,
> + .isolate_pages = isolate_pages_in_container,
> + };
> + int node;
> + struct zone **zones;
> +
> + for_each_node(node) {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> + zones = NODE_DATA(node)->node_zonelists[ZONE_HIGHMEM].zones;
> + if (do_try_to_free_pages(zones, sc.gfp_mask, &sc))
> + return 1;
> +#endif
> + zones = NODE_DATA(node)->node_zonelists[ZONE_NORMAL].zones;
> + if (do_try_to_free_pages(zones, sc.gfp_mask, &sc))
> + return 1;
> + }
> + return 0;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
Hi, Pavel,
This patch fixes a bug in the RSS controller, where we walk through all
nodes during reclaim in try_to_free_pages_in_container(). Instead of
for_each_node(), we now use for_each_online_node() so that we do not
end up with invalid zones from nodes that are not online.
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~rss-fix-nodescan mm/vmscan.c
--- linux-2.6.20/mm/vmscan.c~rss-fix-nodescan 2007-05-02 14:47:09.000000000
+0530
+++ linux-2.6.20-balbir/mm/vmscan.c 2007-05-02 14:47:25.000000000 +0530
@@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages_in_conta
int node;
struct zone **zones;
- for_each_node(node) {
+ for_each_online_node(node) {
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
zones = NODE_DATA(node)->node_zonelists[ZONE_HIGHMEM].zones;
if (do_try_to_free_pages(zones, sc.gfp_mask, &sc))
_
--
Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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