linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 2/5] vmscan: Kill hibernation specific reclaim logic and unify it

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Message-Id: <20091103002520.886C.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 Nov 2009 00:35:31 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@...a.org.au>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/5] vmscan: Kill hibernation specific reclaim logic and unify it

Hi

Thank you for the reviewing :)

> > 2) shrink_all_zone() try to shrink all pages at a time. but it doesn't works
> >   fine on numa system.
> >   example)
> >     System has 4GB memory and each node have 2GB. and hibernate need 1GB.
> > 
> >     optimal)
> >        steal 500MB from each node.
> >     shrink_all_zones)
> >        steal 1GB from node-0.
> 
> I haven't given much thought to numa awareness in hibernate code, but I
> can say that the shrink_all_memory interface is woefully inadequate as
> far as zone awareness goes. Since lowmem needs to be atomically restored
> before we can restore highmem, we really need to be able to ask for a
> particular number of pages of a particular zone type to be freed.

Honestly, I am not suspend/hibernation expert. Can I ask why caller need to know
per-zone number of freed pages information? if hibernation don't need highmem.
following incremental patch prevent highmem reclaim perfectly. Is it enough?


---
 mm/vmscan.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index e6ea011..7fb3435 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2265,7 +2265,7 @@ unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned long nr_to_reclaim)
 {
 	struct reclaim_state reclaim_state;
 	struct scan_control sc = {
-		.gfp_mask = GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE,
+		.gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
 		.may_swap = 1,
 		.may_unmap = 1,
 		.may_writepage = 1,
-- 
1.6.2.5



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