[patch 027/101] mm, vmscan: by default have direct reclaim only shrink once per node

[patch 027/101] mm, vmscan: by default have direct reclaim only shrink once per node

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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Subject: 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.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-11-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/vmscan.c |   22 ++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-by-default-have-direct-reclaim-only-shrink-once-per-node mm/vmscan.c
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-by-default-have-direct-reclaim-only-shrink-once-per-node
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2552,14 +2552,6 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(stru
  * 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
 	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
 			}
 
 			/*
+			 * 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
 			/* 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);
 	}
 
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