linux-kernel - Re: ppc: RECLAIM

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Date:	Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:33:45 -0800
From:	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ppc: RECLAIM_DISTANCE 10?

On 19.02.2014 [08:24:38 -0800], Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> On 18.02.2014 [17:43:38 -0800], David Rientjes wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > 
> > > How about the following?
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > > index 5de4337..1a0eced 100644
> > > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > > @@ -1854,7 +1854,8 @@ static void __paginginit init_zone_allows_reclaim(int nid)
> > >         int i;
> > >  
> > >         for_each_online_node(i)
> > > -               if (node_distance(nid, i) <= RECLAIM_DISTANCE)
> > > +               if (node_distance(nid, i) <= RECLAIM_DISTANCE ||
> > > +                                       !NODE_DATA(i)->node_present_pages)
> > >                         node_set(i, NODE_DATA(nid)->reclaim_nodes);
> > >                 else
> > >                         zone_reclaim_mode = 1;
> > 
> >  [ I changed the above from NODE_DATA(nid) -> NODE_DATA(i) as you caught 
> >    so we're looking at the right code. ]
> > 
> > That can't be right, it would allow reclaiming from a memoryless node.  I 
> > think what you want is
> 
> Gah, you're right.
> 
> > 	for_each_online_node(i) {
> > 		if (!node_present_pages(i))
> > 			continue;
> > 		if (node_distance(nid, i) <= RECLAIM_DISTANCE) {
> > 			node_set(i, NODE_DATA(nid)->reclaim_nodes);
> > 			continue;
> > 		}
> > 		/* Always try to reclaim locally */
> > 		zone_reclaim_mode = 1;
> > 	}
> > 
> > but we really should be able to do for_each_node_state(i, N_MEMORY) here 
> > and memoryless nodes should already be excluded from that mask.
> 
> Yep, I found that afterwards, which simplifies the logic. I'll add this
> to my series :)

In looking at the code, I am wondering about the following:

init_zone_allows_reclaim() is called for each nid from
free_area_init_node(). Which means that calculate_node_totalpages for
other "later" nids and check_for_memory() [which sets up the N_MEMORY
nodemask] hasn't been called yet.

So, would it make sense to pull up the
                /* Any memory on that node */
                if (pgdat->node_present_pages)
                        node_set_state(nid, N_MEMORY);
                check_for_memory(pgdat, nid);
into free_area_init_node()?

Thanks,
Nish

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