On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 09:10:31PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 03/17/2013 09:04 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >Simplistically, the anon and file LRU lists are scanned proportionally
> >depending on the value of vm.swappiness although there are other factors
> >taken into account by get_scan_count(). The patch "mm: vmscan: Limit
> >the number of pages kswapd reclaims" limits the number of pages kswapd
> >reclaims but it breaks this proportional scanning and may evenly shrink
> >anon/file LRUs regardless of vm.swappiness.
> >
> >This patch preserves the proportional scanning and reclaim. It does mean
> >that kswapd will reclaim more than requested but the number of pages will
> >be related to the high watermark.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> >---
> > mm/vmscan.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> > 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> >index 4835a7a..182ff15 100644
> >--- a/mm/vmscan.c
> >+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> >@@ -1815,6 +1815,45 @@ out:
> > }
> > }
> >
> >+static void recalculate_scan_count(unsigned long nr_reclaimed,
> >+ unsigned long nr_to_reclaim,
> >+ unsigned long nr[NR_LRU_LISTS])
> >+{
> >+ enum lru_list l;
> >+
> >+ /*
> >+ * For direct reclaim, reclaim the number of pages requested. Less
> >+ * care is taken to ensure that scanning for each LRU is properly
> >+ * proportional. This is unfortunate and is improper aging but
> >+ * minimises the amount of time a process is stalled.
> >+ */
> >+ if (!current_is_kswapd()) {
> >+ if (nr_reclaimed >= nr_to_reclaim) {
> >+ for_each_evictable_lru(l)
> >+ nr[l] = 0;
> >+ }
> >+ return;
> >+ }
>
> This part is obvious.
>
> >+ /*
> >+ * For kswapd, reclaim at least the number of pages requested.
> >+ * However, ensure that LRUs shrink by the proportion requested
> >+ * by get_scan_count() so vm.swappiness is obeyed.
> >+ */
> >+ if (nr_reclaimed >= nr_to_reclaim) {
> >+ unsigned long min = ULONG_MAX;
> >+
> >+ /* Find the LRU with the fewest pages to reclaim */
> >+ for_each_evictable_lru(l)
> >+ if (nr[l] < min)
> >+ min = nr[l];
> >+
> >+ /* Normalise the scan counts so kswapd scans proportionally */
> >+ for_each_evictable_lru(l)
> >+ nr[l] -= min;
> >+ }
> >+}
>
> This part took me a bit longer to get.
>
> Before getting to this point, we scanned the LRUs evenly.
> By subtracting min from all of the LRUs, we end up stopping
> the scanning of the LRU where we have the fewest pages left
> to scan.
>
> This results in the scanning being concentrated where it
> should be - on the LRUs where we have not done nearly
> enough scanning yet.
>
This is exactly what my intention was. It does mean that we potentially
reclaim much more than required by sc->nr_to_reclaim but I did not think
of a straight-forward way around that that would work in every case.
> However, I am not sure how to document it better than
> your comment already has...
>
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
Thanks.
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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