Re: [PATCH 03/27] mm, vmscan: Move LRU lists to node

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On 06/21/2016 04:15 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
This moves the LRU lists from the zone to the node and related data
such as counters, tracing, congestion tracking and writeback tracking.
Unfortunately, due to reclaim and compaction retry logic, it is necessary
to account for the number of LRU pages on both zone and node logic. Most
reclaim logic is based on the node counters but the retry logic uses
the zone counters which do not distinguish inactive and inactive sizes.
It would be possible to leave the LRU counters on a per-zone basis but
it's a heavier calculation across multiple cache lines that is much
more frequent than the retry checks.

Other than the LRU counters, this is mostly a mechanical patch but note
that it introduces a number of anomalies. For example, the scans are
per-zone but using per-node counters. We also mark a node as congested
when a zone is congested. This causes weird problems that are fixed later
but is easier to review.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>


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