From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] mm: vmscan: scan dirty pages even in laptop mode
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 13:16:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170123181641.23938-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170123181641.23938-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org>
We have an elaborate dirty/writeback throttling mechanism inside the
reclaim scanner, but for that to work the pages have to go through
shrink_page_list() and get counted for what they are. Otherwise, we
mess up the LRU order and don't match reclaim speed to writeback.
Especially during deactivation, there is never a reason to skip dirty
pages; nothing is even trying to write them out from there. Don't mess
up the LRU order for nothing, shuffle these pages along.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
---
include/linux/mmzone.h | 2 --
mm/vmscan.c | 14 ++------------
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index df992831fde7..338a786a993f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -236,8 +236,6 @@ struct lruvec {
#define LRU_ALL_ANON (BIT(LRU_INACTIVE_ANON) | BIT(LRU_ACTIVE_ANON))
#define LRU_ALL ((1 << NR_LRU_LISTS) - 1)
-/* Isolate clean file */
-#define ISOLATE_CLEAN ((__force isolate_mode_t)0x1)
/* Isolate unmapped file */
#define ISOLATE_UNMAPPED ((__force isolate_mode_t)0x2)
/* Isolate for asynchronous migration */
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 7bb23ff229b6..0d05f7f3b532 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ struct scan_control {
/* The highest zone to isolate pages for reclaim from */
enum zone_type reclaim_idx;
+ /* Writepage batching in laptop mode; RECLAIM_WRITE */
unsigned int may_writepage:1;
/* Can mapped pages be reclaimed? */
@@ -1373,13 +1374,10 @@ int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, isolate_mode_t mode)
* wants to isolate pages it will be able to operate on without
* blocking - clean pages for the most part.
*
- * ISOLATE_CLEAN means that only clean pages should be isolated. This
- * is used by reclaim when it is cannot write to backing storage
- *
* ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE is used to indicate that it only wants to pages
* that it is possible to migrate without blocking
*/
- if (mode & (ISOLATE_CLEAN|ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE)) {
+ if (mode & ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE) {
/* All the caller can do on PageWriteback is block */
if (PageWriteback(page))
return ret;
@@ -1387,10 +1385,6 @@ int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, isolate_mode_t mode)
if (PageDirty(page)) {
struct address_space *mapping;
- /* ISOLATE_CLEAN means only clean pages */
- if (mode & ISOLATE_CLEAN)
- return ret;
-
/*
* Only pages without mappings or that have a
* ->migratepage callback are possible to migrate
@@ -1731,8 +1725,6 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec,
if (!sc->may_unmap)
isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_UNMAPPED;
- if (!sc->may_writepage)
- isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_CLEAN;
spin_lock_irq(&pgdat->lru_lock);
@@ -1929,8 +1921,6 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
if (!sc->may_unmap)
isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_UNMAPPED;
- if (!sc->may_writepage)
- isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_CLEAN;
spin_lock_irq(&pgdat->lru_lock);
--
2.11.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-23 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-23 18:16 [PATCH 0/5] mm: vmscan: fix kswapd writeback regression Johannes Weiner
2017-01-23 18:16 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2017-01-26 1:27 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm: vmscan: scan dirty pages even in laptop mode Minchan Kim
2017-01-26 9:52 ` Mel Gorman
2017-01-26 13:13 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-23 18:16 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: vmscan: kick flushers when we encounter dirty pages on the LRU Johannes Weiner
2017-01-26 1:35 ` Minchan Kim
2017-01-26 9:57 ` Mel Gorman
2017-01-26 17:47 ` Johannes Weiner
2017-01-26 18:47 ` Mel Gorman
2017-01-26 13:16 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-23 18:16 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm: vmscan: remove old flusher wakeup from direct reclaim path Johannes Weiner
2017-01-26 1:38 ` Minchan Kim
2017-01-26 10:05 ` Mel Gorman
2017-01-26 18:50 ` Johannes Weiner
2017-01-26 20:45 ` Mel Gorman
2017-01-27 12:01 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-27 14:27 ` Mel Gorman
2017-01-26 13:21 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-23 18:16 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm: vmscan: only write dirty pages that the scanner has seen twice Johannes Weiner
2017-01-26 1:42 ` Minchan Kim
2017-01-26 10:08 ` Mel Gorman
2017-01-26 13:29 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-23 18:16 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm: vmscan: move dirty pages out of the way until they're flushed Johannes Weiner
2017-01-26 1:47 ` Minchan Kim
2017-01-26 10:19 ` Mel Gorman
2017-01-26 20:07 ` Johannes Weiner
2017-01-26 20:58 ` Mel Gorman
2017-01-26 13:52 ` Michal Hocko
2017-01-26 5:44 ` [PATCH 0/5] mm: vmscan: fix kswapd writeback regression Hillf Danton
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