From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qk0-f198.google.com (mail-qk0-f198.google.com [209.85.220.198]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 463FC6B0265 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2016 16:03:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-qk0-f198.google.com with SMTP id e3so179092548qkd.2 for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2016 13:03:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from outbound-smtp10.blacknight.com (outbound-smtp10.blacknight.com. [46.22.139.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v131si239802wmf.1.2016.07.01.13.03.23 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 01 Jul 2016 13:03:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail04.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.17]) by outbound-smtp10.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 31A1D1C21DF for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2016 21:03:23 +0100 (IST) From: Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 09/31] mm, vmscan: by default have direct reclaim only shrink once per node Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 21:01:17 +0100 Message-Id: <1467403299-25786-10-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net> In-Reply-To: <1467403299-25786-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net> References: <1467403299-25786-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton , Linux-MM Cc: Rik van Riel , Vlastimil Babka , Johannes Weiner , LKML , Mel Gorman 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 Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka --- mm/vmscan.c | 19 +++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index b524d3b72527..34656173a670 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 @@ -2600,6 +2593,16 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc) classzone_idx--; /* + * 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; + last_pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat; + + /* * Take care memory controller reclaiming has small influence * to global LRU. */ -- 2.6.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org