Re: [PATCH 04/27] mm, vmscan: Begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis

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On 06/21/2016 04:15 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
This patch makes reclaim decisions on a per-node basis. A reclaimer knows
what zone is required by the allocation request and skips pages from
higher zones. In many cases this will be ok because it's a GFP_HIGHMEM
request of some description. On 64-bit, ZONE_DMA32 requests will cause
some problems but 32-bit devices on 64-bit platforms are increasingly
rare. Historically it would have been a major problem on 32-bit with big
Highmem:Lowmem ratios but such configurations are also now rare and even
where they exist, they are not encouraged. If it really becomes a problem,
it'll manifest as very low reclaim efficiencies.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[...]

@@ -2540,14 +2559,14 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order, int classzone_
  * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
  * scan then give up on it.
  */
-static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
+static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc,
+		enum zone_type classzone_idx)
 {
 	struct zoneref *z;
 	struct zone *zone;
 	unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed;
 	unsigned long nr_soft_scanned;
 	gfp_t orig_mask;
-	enum zone_type requested_highidx = gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask);

 	/*
 	 * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine exceeds the maximum
@@ -2560,15 +2579,20 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)

 	for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
 					gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) {

Using sc->reclaim_idx could be faster/nicer here than gfp_zone()?
Although after "mm, vmscan: Update classzone_idx if buffer_heads_over_limit" there would need to be a variable for the highmem adjusted value - maybe reuse "requested_highidx"? Not important though.

-		enum zone_type classzone_idx;
-
 		if (!populated_zone(zone))
 			continue;

-		classzone_idx = requested_highidx;
+		/*
+		 * Note that reclaim_idx does not change as it is the highest
+		 * zone reclaimed from which for empty zones is a no-op but
+		 * classzone_idx is used by shrink_node to test if the slabs
+		 * should be shrunk on a given node.
+		 */
 		while (!populated_zone(zone->zone_pgdat->node_zones +
-							classzone_idx))
+							classzone_idx)) {
 			classzone_idx--;
+			continue;
+		}

 		/*
 		 * Take care memory controller reclaiming has small influence
@@ -2594,8 +2618,8 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
 			 */
 			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) &&
 			    sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&
-			    zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= requested_highidx &&
-			    compaction_ready(zone, sc->order, requested_highidx)) {
+			    zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= classzone_idx &&
+			    compaction_ready(zone, sc->order, classzone_idx)) {
 				sc->compaction_ready = true;
 				continue;
 			}
@@ -2615,7 +2639,7 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
 			/* need some check for avoid more shrink_zone() */
 		}

-		shrink_zone(zone, sc, zone_idx(zone) == classzone_idx);
+		shrink_node(zone->zone_pgdat, sc, classzone_idx);
 	}

 	/*
@@ -2647,6 +2671,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
 	int initial_priority = sc->priority;
 	unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
 	unsigned long writeback_threshold;
+	enum zone_type classzone_idx = sc->reclaim_idx;

Hmm, try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages() seems to call this with sc->reclaim_idx not explicitly inirialized (e.g. 0). And shrink_all_memory() as well. I probably didn't check them in v6 and pointed out only try_to_free_pages() (which is now OK), sorry.

 retry:
 	delayacct_freepages_start();

@@ -2657,7 +2682,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
 		vmpressure_prio(sc->gfp_mask, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
 				sc->priority);
 		sc->nr_scanned = 0;
-		shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
+		shrink_zones(zonelist, sc, classzone_idx);

Looks like classzone_idx here is only used here to pass to shrink_zones() unchanged, which means it can just use it directly without a new param?


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