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Message-Id: <1466518566-30034-16-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:15:54 +0100
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Subject: [PATCH 15/27] mm, page_alloc: Consider dirtyable memory in terms of nodes
Historically dirty pages were spread among zones but now that LRUs are
per-node it is more appropriate to consider dirty pages in a node.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
---
include/linux/mmzone.h | 12 +++---
include/linux/writeback.h | 2 +-
mm/page-writeback.c | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
mm/page_alloc.c | 26 ++++++-------
4 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 60a1becfd256..ca9e05ca851d 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -361,12 +361,6 @@ struct zone {
struct pglist_data *zone_pgdat;
struct per_cpu_pageset __percpu *pageset;
- /*
- * This is a per-zone reserve of pages that are not available
- * to userspace allocations.
- */
- unsigned long totalreserve_pages;
-
#ifndef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
/*
* Flags for a pageblock_nr_pages block. See pageblock-flags.h.
@@ -684,6 +678,12 @@ typedef struct pglist_data {
/* Number of pages migrated during the rate limiting time interval */
unsigned long numabalancing_migrate_nr_pages;
#endif
+ /*
+ * This is a per-node reserve of pages that are not available
+ * to userspace allocations.
+ */
+ unsigned long totalreserve_pages;
+
/* Write-intensive fields used from the page allocator */
ZONE_PADDING(_pad1_)
spinlock_t lru_lock;
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index d0b5ca5d4e08..44b4422ae57f 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data);
static inline void laptop_sync_completion(void) { }
#endif
void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask);
-bool zone_dirty_ok(struct zone *zone);
+bool node_dirty_ok(struct pglist_data *pgdat);
int wb_domain_init(struct wb_domain *dom, gfp_t gfp);
#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
void wb_domain_exit(struct wb_domain *dom);
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index a0aa268b6281..a2b24d5ea43a 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -267,26 +267,35 @@ static void wb_min_max_ratio(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
*/
/**
- * zone_dirtyable_memory - number of dirtyable pages in a zone
- * @zone: the zone
+ * node_dirtyable_memory - number of dirtyable pages in a node
+ * @pgdat: the node
*
- * Returns the zone's number of pages potentially available for dirty
- * page cache. This is the base value for the per-zone dirty limits.
+ * Returns the node's number of pages potentially available for dirty
+ * page cache. This is the base value for the per-node dirty limits.
*/
-static unsigned long zone_dirtyable_memory(struct zone *zone)
+static unsigned long node_dirtyable_memory(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
{
- unsigned long nr_pages;
+ unsigned long nr_pages = 0;
+ int z;
+
+ for (z = 0; z < MAX_NR_ZONES; z++) {
+ struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + z;
+
+ if (!populated_zone(zone))
+ continue;
+
+ nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
+ }
- nr_pages = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
/*
* Pages reserved for the kernel should not be considered
* dirtyable, to prevent a situation where reclaim has to
* clean pages in order to balance the zones.
*/
- nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, zone->totalreserve_pages);
+ nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, pgdat->totalreserve_pages);
- nr_pages += node_page_state(zone->zone_pgdat, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
- nr_pages += node_page_state(zone->zone_pgdat, NR_ACTIVE_FILE);
+ nr_pages += node_page_state(pgdat, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
+ nr_pages += node_page_state(pgdat, NR_ACTIVE_FILE);
return nr_pages;
}
@@ -294,29 +303,13 @@ static unsigned long zone_dirtyable_memory(struct zone *zone)
static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
- int node;
unsigned long x = 0;
- int i;
-
- for_each_node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
- for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
- struct zone *z = &NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[i];
- if (is_highmem(z))
- x += zone_dirtyable_memory(z);
- }
- }
/*
- * Unreclaimable memory (kernel memory or anonymous memory
- * without swap) can bring down the dirtyable pages below
- * the zone's dirty balance reserve and the above calculation
- * will underflow. However we still want to add in nodes
- * which are below threshold (negative values) to get a more
- * accurate calculation but make sure that the total never
- * underflows.
+ * LRU lists are per-node so there is no fast and accurate means of
+ * calculating dirtyable memory in the highmem zone.
*/
- if ((long)x < 0)
- x = 0;
+ x = totalhigh_pages;
/*
* Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
@@ -445,23 +438,23 @@ void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty)
}
/**
- * zone_dirty_limit - maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a zone
- * @zone: the zone
+ * node_dirty_limit - maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a node
+ * @pgdat: the node
*
- * Returns the maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a zone, based
- * on the zone's dirtyable memory.
+ * Returns the maximum number of dirty pages allowed in a node, based
+ * on the node's dirtyable memory.
*/
-static unsigned long zone_dirty_limit(struct zone *zone)
+static unsigned long node_dirty_limit(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
{
- unsigned long zone_memory = zone_dirtyable_memory(zone);
+ unsigned long node_memory = node_dirtyable_memory(pgdat);
struct task_struct *tsk = current;
unsigned long dirty;
if (vm_dirty_bytes)
dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE) *
- zone_memory / global_dirtyable_memory();
+ node_memory / global_dirtyable_memory();
else
- dirty = vm_dirty_ratio * zone_memory / 100;
+ dirty = vm_dirty_ratio * node_memory / 100;
if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk))
dirty += dirty / 4;
@@ -470,19 +463,30 @@ static unsigned long zone_dirty_limit(struct zone *zone)
}
/**
- * zone_dirty_ok - tells whether a zone is within its dirty limits
- * @zone: the zone to check
+ * node_dirty_ok - tells whether a node is within its dirty limits
+ * @pgdat: the node to check
*
- * Returns %true when the dirty pages in @zone are within the zone's
+ * Returns %true when the dirty pages in @pgdat are within the node's
* dirty limit, %false if the limit is exceeded.
*/
-bool zone_dirty_ok(struct zone *zone)
+bool node_dirty_ok(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
{
- unsigned long limit = zone_dirty_limit(zone);
+ int z;
+ unsigned long limit = node_dirty_limit(pgdat);
+ unsigned long nr_pages = 0;
+
+ for (z = 0; z < MAX_NR_ZONES; z++) {
+ struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + z;
+
+ if (!populated_zone(zone))
+ continue;
+
+ nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
+ nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
+ nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_WRITEBACK);
+ }
- return zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
- zone_page_state(zone, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
- zone_page_state(zone, NR_WRITEBACK) <= limit;
+ return nr_pages <= limit;
}
int dirty_background_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index d62b147fd426..962e98e54fd2 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2917,31 +2917,24 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int alloc_flags,
}
/*
* When allocating a page cache page for writing, we
- * want to get it from a zone that is within its dirty
- * limit, such that no single zone holds more than its
+ * want to get it from a node that is within its dirty
+ * limit, such that no single node holds more than its
* proportional share of globally allowed dirty pages.
- * The dirty limits take into account the zone's
+ * The dirty limits take into account the node's
* lowmem reserves and high watermark so that kswapd
* should be able to balance it without having to
* write pages from its LRU list.
*
- * This may look like it could increase pressure on
- * lower zones by failing allocations in higher zones
- * before they are full. But the pages that do spill
- * over are limited as the lower zones are protected
- * by this very same mechanism. It should not become
- * a practical burden to them.
- *
* XXX: For now, allow allocations to potentially
- * exceed the per-zone dirty limit in the slowpath
+ * exceed the per-node dirty limit in the slowpath
* (spread_dirty_pages unset) before going into reclaim,
* which is important when on a NUMA setup the allowed
- * zones are together not big enough to reach the
+ * nodes are together not big enough to reach the
* global limit. The proper fix for these situations
- * will require awareness of zones in the
+ * will require awareness of nodes in the
* dirty-throttling and the flusher threads.
*/
- if (ac->spread_dirty_pages && !zone_dirty_ok(zone))
+ if (ac->spread_dirty_pages && !node_dirty_ok(zone->zone_pgdat))
continue;
mark = zone->watermark[alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK];
@@ -6692,6 +6685,9 @@ static void calculate_totalreserve_pages(void)
enum zone_type i, j;
for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat) {
+
+ pgdat->totalreserve_pages = 0;
+
for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
long max = 0;
@@ -6708,7 +6704,7 @@ static void calculate_totalreserve_pages(void)
if (max > zone->managed_pages)
max = zone->managed_pages;
- zone->totalreserve_pages = max;
+ pgdat->totalreserve_pages += max;
reserve_pages += max;
}
--
2.6.4
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