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Message-Id: <20090210184055.6FCB.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:42:30 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com
Subject: [PATCH] mm: remove zone->prev_prioriy


KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki sugessted to remove zone->prev_priority.
it's because Split-LRU VM doesn't use this parameter at all.


Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
---
 include/linux/memcontrol.h |   27 -------------------------
 include/linux/mmzone.h     |   15 --------------
 mm/memcontrol.c            |   31 -----------------------------
 mm/page_alloc.c            |    2 -
 mm/vmscan.c                |   48 ++-------------------------------------------
 mm/vmstat.c                |    2 -
 6 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 122 deletions(-)

Index: b/mm/memcontrol.c
===================================================================
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -150,8 +150,6 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
 	*/
 	spinlock_t reclaim_param_lock;
 
-	int	prev_priority;	/* for recording reclaim priority */
-
 	/*
 	 * While reclaiming in a hiearchy, we cache the last child we
 	 * reclaimed from. Protected by hierarchy_mutex
@@ -464,35 +462,6 @@ int mem_cgroup_calc_mapped_ratio(struct 
 	return (int)((rss * 100L) / total);
 }
 
-/*
- * prev_priority control...this will be used in memory reclaim path.
- */
-int mem_cgroup_get_reclaim_priority(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
-{
-	int prev_priority;
-
-	spin_lock(&mem->reclaim_param_lock);
-	prev_priority = mem->prev_priority;
-	spin_unlock(&mem->reclaim_param_lock);
-
-	return prev_priority;
-}
-
-void mem_cgroup_note_reclaim_priority(struct mem_cgroup *mem, int priority)
-{
-	spin_lock(&mem->reclaim_param_lock);
-	if (priority < mem->prev_priority)
-		mem->prev_priority = priority;
-	spin_unlock(&mem->reclaim_param_lock);
-}
-
-void mem_cgroup_record_reclaim_priority(struct mem_cgroup *mem, int priority)
-{
-	spin_lock(&mem->reclaim_param_lock);
-	mem->prev_priority = priority;
-	spin_unlock(&mem->reclaim_param_lock);
-}
-
 static int calc_inactive_ratio(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned long *present_pages)
 {
 	unsigned long active;
Index: b/mm/vmscan.c
===================================================================
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1174,20 +1174,6 @@ done:
 }
 
 /*
- * We are about to scan this zone at a certain priority level.  If that priority
- * level is smaller (ie: more urgent) than the previous priority, then note
- * that priority level within the zone.  This is done so that when the next
- * process comes in to scan this zone, it will immediately start out at this
- * priority level rather than having to build up its own scanning priority.
- * Here, this priority affects only the reclaim-mapped threshold.
- */
-static inline void note_zone_scanning_priority(struct zone *zone, int priority)
-{
-	if (priority < zone->prev_priority)
-		zone->prev_priority = priority;
-}
-
-/*
  * This moves pages from the active list to the inactive list.
  *
  * We move them the other way if the page is referenced by one or more
@@ -1553,22 +1539,18 @@ static void shrink_zones(int priority, s
 		if (scanning_global_lru(sc)) {
 			if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL))
 				continue;
-			note_zone_scanning_priority(zone, priority);
 
 			if (zone_is_all_unreclaimable(zone) &&
 						priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
 				continue;	/* Let kswapd poll it */
-			sc->all_unreclaimable = 0;
+
 		} else {
 			/*
 			 * Ignore cpuset limitation here. We just want to reduce
 			 * # of used pages by us regardless of memory shortage.
 			 */
-			sc->all_unreclaimable = 0;
-			mem_cgroup_note_reclaim_priority(sc->mem_cgroup,
-							priority);
 		}
-
+		sc->all_unreclaimable = 0;
 		shrink_zone(priority, zone, sc);
 	}
 }
@@ -1676,11 +1658,8 @@ out:
 
 			if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL))
 				continue;
-
-			zone->prev_priority = priority;
 		}
-	} else
-		mem_cgroup_record_reclaim_priority(sc->mem_cgroup, priority);
+	}
 
 	delayacct_freepages_end();
 
@@ -1769,11 +1748,6 @@ static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_da
 		.mem_cgroup = NULL,
 		.isolate_pages = isolate_pages_global,
 	};
-	/*
-	 * temp_priority is used to remember the scanning priority at which
-	 * this zone was successfully refilled to free_pages == pages_high.
-	 */
-	int temp_priority[MAX_NR_ZONES];
 
 loop_again:
 	total_scanned = 0;
@@ -1781,9 +1755,6 @@ loop_again:
 	sc.may_writepage = !laptop_mode;
 	count_vm_event(PAGEOUTRUN);
 
-	for (i = 0; i < pgdat->nr_zones; i++)
-		temp_priority[i] = DEF_PRIORITY;
-
 	for (priority = DEF_PRIORITY; priority >= 0; priority--) {
 		int end_zone = 0;	/* Inclusive.  0 = ZONE_DMA */
 		unsigned long lru_pages = 0;
@@ -1854,9 +1825,7 @@ loop_again:
 			if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, zone->pages_high,
 					       end_zone, 0))
 				all_zones_ok = 0;
-			temp_priority[i] = priority;
 			sc.nr_scanned = 0;
-			note_zone_scanning_priority(zone, priority);
 			/*
 			 * We put equal pressure on every zone, unless one
 			 * zone has way too many pages free already.
@@ -1903,16 +1872,6 @@ loop_again:
 			break;
 	}
 out:
-	/*
-	 * Note within each zone the priority level at which this zone was
-	 * brought into a happy state.  So that the next thread which scans this
-	 * zone will start out at that priority level.
-	 */
-	for (i = 0; i < pgdat->nr_zones; i++) {
-		struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
-
-		zone->prev_priority = temp_priority[i];
-	}
 	if (!all_zones_ok) {
 		cond_resched();
 
@@ -2321,7 +2280,6 @@ static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *z
 		 */
 		priority = ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY;
 		do {
-			note_zone_scanning_priority(zone, priority);
 			shrink_zone(priority, zone, &sc);
 			priority--;
 		} while (priority >= 0 && sc.nr_reclaimed < nr_pages);
Index: b/include/linux/mmzone.h
===================================================================
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -337,21 +337,6 @@ struct zone {
 	atomic_long_t		vm_stat[NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS];
 
 	/*
-	 * prev_priority holds the scanning priority for this zone.  It is
-	 * defined as the scanning priority at which we achieved our reclaim
-	 * target at the previous try_to_free_pages() or balance_pgdat()
-	 * invokation.
-	 *
-	 * We use prev_priority as a measure of how much stress page reclaim is
-	 * under - it drives the swappiness decision: whether to unmap mapped
-	 * pages.
-	 *
-	 * Access to both this field is quite racy even on uniprocessor.  But
-	 * it is expected to average out OK.
-	 */
-	int prev_priority;
-
-	/*
 	 * The target ratio of ACTIVE_ANON to INACTIVE_ANON pages on
 	 * this zone's LRU.  Maintained by the pageout code.
 	 */
Index: b/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3516,8 +3516,6 @@ static void __paginginit free_area_init_
 		zone_seqlock_init(zone);
 		zone->zone_pgdat = pgdat;
 
-		zone->prev_priority = DEF_PRIORITY;
-
 		zone_pcp_init(zone);
 		for_each_lru(l) {
 			INIT_LIST_HEAD(&zone->lru[l].list);
Index: b/mm/vmstat.c
===================================================================
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -775,11 +775,9 @@ static void zoneinfo_show_print(struct s
 	}
 	seq_printf(m,
 		   "\n  all_unreclaimable: %u"
-		   "\n  prev_priority:     %i"
 		   "\n  start_pfn:         %lu"
 		   "\n  inactive_ratio:    %u",
 			   zone_is_all_unreclaimable(zone),
-		   zone->prev_priority,
 		   zone->zone_start_pfn,
 		   zone->inactive_ratio);
 	seq_putc(m, '\n');
Index: b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
===================================================================
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -88,14 +88,7 @@ extern void mem_cgroup_end_migration(str
 /*
  * For memory reclaim.
  */
-extern int mem_cgroup_calc_mapped_ratio(struct mem_cgroup *mem);
 extern long mem_cgroup_reclaim_imbalance(struct mem_cgroup *mem);
-
-extern int mem_cgroup_get_reclaim_priority(struct mem_cgroup *mem);
-extern void mem_cgroup_note_reclaim_priority(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
-							int priority);
-extern void mem_cgroup_record_reclaim_priority(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
-							int priority);
 int mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
 unsigned long mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 				       struct zone *zone,
@@ -209,31 +202,11 @@ static inline void mem_cgroup_end_migrat
 {
 }
 
-static inline int mem_cgroup_calc_mapped_ratio(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-
 static inline int mem_cgroup_reclaim_imbalance(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
 {
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static inline int mem_cgroup_get_reclaim_priority(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-
-static inline void mem_cgroup_note_reclaim_priority(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
-						int priority)
-{
-}
-
-static inline void mem_cgroup_record_reclaim_priority(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
-						int priority)
-{
-}
-
 static inline bool mem_cgroup_disabled(void)
 {
 	return true;



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