linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/27] mm, vmscan: Begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:07:28 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/27] mm, vmscan: Begin reclaiming pages on a per-node
 basis

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 06:00:12PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> >>-		enum zone_type classzone_idx;
> >>-
> >> 		if (!populated_zone(zone))
> >> 			continue;
> >>
> >>-		classzone_idx = requested_highidx;
> >>+		/*
> >>+		 * Note that reclaim_idx does not change as it is the highest
> >>+		 * zone reclaimed from which for empty zones is a no-op but
> >>+		 * classzone_idx is used by shrink_node to test if the slabs
> >>+		 * should be shrunk on a given node.
> >>+		 */
> >> 		while (!populated_zone(zone->zone_pgdat->node_zones +
> >>-							classzone_idx))
> >>+							classzone_idx)) {
> >> 			classzone_idx--;
> >>+			continue;
> 
> Oh and Michal's comment on Patch 20 made me realize that my objection to v6
> about possible underflow of sc->reclaim_idx and classzone_idx seems to still
> apply here for classzone_idx?

Potentially. The relevant code now looks like this

                classzone_idx = sc->reclaim_idx;
                while (!populated_zone(zone->zone_pgdat->node_zones +
                                                        classzone_idx))
                        classzone_idx--;

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs