linux-kernel - [PATCH 10/34] mm, vmscan: by default have direct reclaim only shrink once per node

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Date:	Fri,  8 Jul 2016 10:34:46 +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>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Subject: [PATCH 10/34] mm, vmscan: by default have direct reclaim only shrink once per node

Direct reclaim iterates over all zones in the zonelist and shrinking them
but this is in conflict with node-based reclaim.  In the default case,
only shrink once per node.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 905c60473126..01fe4708e404 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2552,14 +2552,6 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order, int classzone_
  * try to reclaim pages from zones which will satisfy the caller's allocation
  * request.
  *
- * We reclaim from a zone even if that zone is over high_wmark_pages(zone).
- * Because:
- * a) The caller may be trying to free *extra* pages to satisfy a higher-order
- *    allocation or
- * b) The target zone may be at high_wmark_pages(zone) but the lower zones
- *    must go *over* high_wmark_pages(zone) to satisfy the `incremental min'
- *    zone defense algorithm.
- *
  * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
  * scan then give up on it.
  */
@@ -2571,6 +2563,7 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
 	unsigned long nr_soft_scanned;
 	gfp_t orig_mask;
 	enum zone_type classzone_idx;
+	pg_data_t *last_pgdat = NULL;
 
 	/*
 	 * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine exceeds the maximum
@@ -2630,6 +2623,15 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
 			}
 
 			/*
+			 * Shrink each node in the zonelist once. If the
+			 * zonelist is ordered by zone (not the default) then a
+			 * node may be shrunk multiple times but in that case
+			 * the user prefers lower zones being preserved.
+			 */
+			if (zone->zone_pgdat == last_pgdat)
+				continue;
+
+			/*
 			 * This steals pages from memory cgroups over softlimit
 			 * and returns the number of reclaimed pages and
 			 * scanned pages. This works for global memory pressure
@@ -2644,6 +2646,10 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
 			/* need some check for avoid more shrink_zone() */
 		}
 
+		/* See comment about same check for global reclaim above */
+		if (zone->zone_pgdat == last_pgdat)
+			continue;
+		last_pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
 		shrink_node(zone->zone_pgdat, sc, classzone_idx);
 	}
 
-- 
2.6.4