Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add the soft_limit reclaim in global direct reclaim.

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On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Ying Han <yinghan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We recently added the change in global background reclaim which
> counts the return value of soft_limit reclaim. Now this patch adds
> the similar logic on global direct reclaim.
>
> We should skip scanning global LRU on shrink_zone if soft_limit reclaim
> does enough work. This is the first step where we start with counting
> the nr_scanned and nr_reclaimed from soft_limit reclaim into global
> scan_control.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c |   16 ++++++++++++++--
>  1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index b3a569f..84003cc 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -1959,11 +1959,14 @@ restart:
>  * 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(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist,
> +static unsigned long shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist,
>                                        struct scan_control *sc)
>  {
>        struct zoneref *z;
>        struct zone *zone;
> +       unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed;
> +       unsigned long nr_soft_scanned;
> +       unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
>
>        for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
>                                        gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) {
> @@ -1980,8 +1983,17 @@ static void shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist,
>                                continue;       /* Let kswapd poll it */
>                }
>
> +               nr_soft_scanned = 0;
> +               nr_soft_reclaimed = mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(zone,
> +                                                       sc->order, sc->gfp_mask,
> +                                                       &nr_soft_scanned);
> +               sc->nr_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
> +               total_scanned += nr_soft_scanned;
> +
>                shrink_zone(priority, zone, sc);
>        }
> +
> +       return total_scanned;
>  }
>
>  static bool zone_reclaimable(struct zone *zone)
> @@ -2045,7 +2057,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>                sc->nr_scanned = 0;
>                if (!priority)
>                        disable_swap_token();
> -               shrink_zones(priority, zonelist, sc);
> +               total_scanned += shrink_zones(priority, zonelist, sc);
>                /*
>                 * Don't shrink slabs when reclaiming memory from
>                 * over limit cgroups
> --
> 1.7.3.1
>
>

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