On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 04:43:46PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 12-12-12 16:43:35, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > In certain cases (kswapd reclaim, memcg target reclaim), a fixed
> > minimum amount of pages is scanned from the LRU lists on each
> > iteration, to make progress.
> >
> > Do not make this minimum bigger than the respective LRU list size,
> > however, and save some busy work trying to isolate and reclaim pages
> > that are not there.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hmm, shrink_lruvec would do:
> nr_to_scan = min_t(unsigned long,
> nr[lru], SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX);
> nr[lru] -= nr_to_scan;
> and isolate_lru_pages does
> for (scan = 0; scan < nr_to_scan && !list_empty(src); scan++)
> so it shouldn't matter and we shouldn't do any additional loops, right?
>
> Anyway it would be beter if get_scan_count wouldn't ask for more than is
> available.
Consider the inactive_list_is_low() check (especially expensive for
memcg anon), lru_add_drain(), lru lock acquisition...
And as I wrote to Mel in the other email, this can happen a lot when
you have memory cgroups in a multi-node environment.
> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Thanks!
> > @@ -1748,15 +1748,17 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
> > out:
> > for_each_evictable_lru(lru) {
> > int file = is_file_lru(lru);
> > + unsigned long size;
> > unsigned long scan;
> >
> > - scan = get_lru_size(lruvec, lru);
> > + size = get_lru_size(lruvec, lru);
> + size = scan = get_lru_size(lruvec, lru);
>
> > if (sc->priority || noswap) {
> > - scan >>= sc->priority;
> > + scan = size >> sc->priority;
> > if (!scan && force_scan)
> > - scan = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
> > + scan = min(size, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX);
> > scan = div64_u64(scan * fraction[file], denominator);
> > - }
> > + } else
> > + scan = size;
>
> And this is not necessary then but this is totally nit.
Do you actually find this more readable? Setting size = scan and then
later scan = size >> sc->priority? :-)
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