Re: shrinkers: Add node to indicate where to target shrinking

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On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Add a field node to struct shrinker that can be used to indicate on which
> node the reclaim should occur. The node field also can be set to NUMA_NO_NODE
> in which case a reclaim pass over all nodes is desired.
>
> Index: linux-2.6/mm/vmscan.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/vmscan.c  2010-10-21 12:50:21.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/vmscan.c       2010-10-21 12:50:31.000000000 -0500
> @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_shrinker);
>  * Returns the number of slab objects which we shrunk.
>  */
>  unsigned long shrink_slab(unsigned long scanned, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> -                       unsigned long lru_pages)
> +                       unsigned long lru_pages, int node)
>  {
>        struct shrinker *shrinker;
>        unsigned long ret = 0;
> @@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(unsigned long
>                unsigned long total_scan;
>                unsigned long max_pass;
>
> +               shrinker->node = node;
>                max_pass = (*shrinker->shrink)(shrinker, 0, gfp_mask);
>                delta = (4 * scanned) / shrinker->seeks;
>                delta *= max_pass;

Apologies for coming late to the party, but I have to ask - is there
anything protecting shrinker->node from concurrent modification if
several threads are trying to reclaim memory at once ?

(I note that there was already something similar done to shrinker->nr
field, so I am probably missing some subtlety in the locking ?)

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.

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