linux-kernel - [PATCH -mmotm 4/4] memcg: change try_to_free_pages to hierarchical

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Message-Id: <20081208110810.a60d1810.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Date:	Mon, 8 Dec 2008 11:08:10 +0900
From:	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>, nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp
Subject: [PATCH -mmotm 4/4] memcg: change try_to_free_pages to
 hierarchical_reclaim

mem_cgroup_hierarchicl_reclaim() works properly even when !use_hierarchy now
(by memcg-hierarchy-avoid-unnecessary-reclaim.patch), so, instead of
try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(), it should be used in many cases.

The only exception is force_empty. The group has no children in this case.


Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c |   12 ++++--------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index fec4fc3..b2b5c57 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1400,8 +1400,7 @@ int mem_cgroup_shrink_usage(struct mm_struct *mm, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	do {
-		progress = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(mem, gfp_mask, true,
-							get_swappiness(mem));
+		progress = mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(mem, gfp_mask, true);
 		progress += mem_cgroup_check_under_limit(mem);
 	} while (!progress && --retry);
 
@@ -1468,10 +1467,8 @@ static int mem_cgroup_resize_limit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 		if (!ret)
 			break;
 
-		progress = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg,
-							GFP_KERNEL,
-							false,
-							get_swappiness(memcg));
+		progress = mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(memcg, GFP_KERNEL,
+							   false);
   		if (!progress)			retry_count--;
 	}
 
@@ -1515,8 +1512,7 @@ int mem_cgroup_resize_memsw_limit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 			break;
 
 		oldusage = res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->memsw, RES_USAGE);
-		try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, GFP_KERNEL, true,
-					     get_swappiness(memcg));
+		mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(memcg, GFP_KERNEL, true);
 		curusage = res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->memsw, RES_USAGE);
 		if (curusage >= oldusage)
 			retry_count--;
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