linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/5] mm: kswapd: Use the order that kswapd was reclaiming at for sleeping

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Date:	Fri,  3 Dec 2010 11:45:31 +0000
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	Simon Kirby <sim@...tway.ca>
Cc:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] mm: kswapd: Use the order that kswapd was reclaiming at for sleeping_prematurely()

Before kswapd goes to sleep, it uses sleeping_prematurely() to check if
there was a race pushing a zone below its watermark. If the race
happened, it stays awake. However, balance_pgdat() can decide to reclaim
at a lower order if it decides that high-order reclaim is not working as
expected. This information is not passed back to sleeping_prematurely().
The impact is that kswapd remains awake reclaiming pages long after it
should have gone to sleep. This patch passes the adjusted order to
sleeping_prematurely and uses the same logic as balance_pgdat to decide
if it's ok to go to sleep.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
---
 mm/vmscan.c |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index d070d19..193feeb 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2118,15 +2118,17 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *mem_cont,
 #endif
 
 /* is kswapd sleeping prematurely? */
-static int sleeping_prematurely(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining)
+static bool sleeping_prematurely(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining)
 {
 	int i;
+	bool all_zones_ok = true;
+	bool any_zone_ok = false;
 
 	/* If a direct reclaimer woke kswapd within HZ/10, it's premature */
 	if (remaining)
 		return 1;
 
-	/* If after HZ/10, a zone is below the high mark, it's premature */
+	/* Check the watermark levels */
 	for (i = 0; i < pgdat->nr_zones; i++) {
 		struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
 
@@ -2138,10 +2140,19 @@ static int sleeping_prematurely(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining)
 
 		if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, high_wmark_pages(zone),
 								0, 0))
-			return 1;
+			all_zones_ok = false;
+		else
+			any_zone_ok = true;
 	}
 
-	return 0;
+	/*
+	 * For high-order requests, any zone meeting the watermark allows
+	 * kswapd to sleep. For order-0, all zones must be balanced
+	 */
+	if (order)
+		return !any_zone_ok;
+	else
+		return !all_zones_ok;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -2391,7 +2402,13 @@ out:
 		}
 	}
 
-	return sc.nr_reclaimed;
+	/*
+	 * Return the order we were reclaiming at so sleeping_prematurely()
+	 * makes a decision on the order we were last reclaiming at. However,
+	 * if another caller entered the allocator slow path while kswapd
+	 * was awake, order will remain at the higher level
+	 */
+	return order;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -2501,7 +2518,7 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
 		 */
 		if (!ret) {
 			trace_mm_vmscan_kswapd_wake(pgdat->node_id, order);
-			balance_pgdat(pgdat, order);
+			order = balance_pgdat(pgdat, order, classzone_idx);
 		}
 	}
 	return 0;
-- 
1.7.1

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