Re: [RFC PATCH v1 3/4] mm: Fix demotion-only scanning anon pages

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Mina Almasry <almasrymina@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This is likely a missed change from commit a2a36488a61c ("mm/vmscan: Consider
> anonymous pages without swap"). Current logic is if !may_swap _or_
> !can_reclaim_anon_pages() then we don't scan anon memory.
>
> This should be an 'and'. We would like to scan anon memory if we may swap
> or if we can_reclaim_anon_pages().
>
> Fixes: commit a2a36488a61c ("mm/vmscan: Consider anonymous pages without swap")
>
> Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 8c1f5416d789..d7e509b3f07f 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -2931,7 +2931,7 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
>  	enum lru_list lru;
>
>  	/* If we have no swap space, do not bother scanning anon folios. */
> -	if (!sc->may_swap || !can_reclaim_anon_pages(memcg, pgdat->node_id, sc)) {
> +	if (!sc->may_swap && !can_reclaim_anon_pages(memcg, pgdat->node_id, sc)) {

If there is only DRAM but swap device is enabled, sc->may_swap will not
work as expected.  So we should check can_demote() instead if
sc->may_swap.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

>  		scan_balance = SCAN_FILE;
>  		goto out;
>  	}
> --
> 2.38.1.584.g0f3c55d4c2-goog



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