[merged] mm-vmscan-call-numa-unaware-shrinkers-irrespective-of-nodemask.patch removed from -mm tree

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Subject: [merged] mm-vmscan-call-numa-unaware-shrinkers-irrespective-of-nodemask.patch removed from -mm tree
To: vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx,glommer@xxxxxxxxx,hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx,mgorman@xxxxxxx,mhocko@xxxxxxx,riel@xxxxxxxxxx,mm-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:59:19 -0800


The patch titled
     Subject: mm: vmscan: call NUMA-unaware shrinkers irrespective of nodemask
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-vmscan-call-numa-unaware-shrinkers-irrespective-of-nodemask.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: vmscan: call NUMA-unaware shrinkers irrespective of nodemask

If a shrinker is not NUMA-aware, shrink_slab() should call it exactly once
with nid=0, but currently it is not true: if node 0 is not set in the
nodemask or if it is not online, we will not call such shrinkers at all. 
As a result some slabs will be left untouched under some circumstances. 
Let us fix it.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/vmscan.c |   19 ++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-call-numa-unaware-shrinkers-irrespective-of-nodemask mm/vmscan.c
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-call-numa-unaware-shrinkers-irrespective-of-nodemask
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -369,16 +369,17 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(struct shrink_
 	}
 
 	list_for_each_entry(shrinker, &shrinker_list, list) {
-		for_each_node_mask(shrinkctl->nid, shrinkctl->nodes_to_scan) {
-			if (!node_online(shrinkctl->nid))
-				continue;
-
-			if (!(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE) &&
-			    (shrinkctl->nid != 0))
-				break;
-
+		if (!(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE)) {
+			shrinkctl->nid = 0;
 			freed += shrink_slab_node(shrinkctl, shrinker,
-				 nr_pages_scanned, lru_pages);
+					nr_pages_scanned, lru_pages);
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		for_each_node_mask(shrinkctl->nid, shrinkctl->nodes_to_scan) {
+			if (node_online(shrinkctl->nid))
+				freed += shrink_slab_node(shrinkctl, shrinker,
+						nr_pages_scanned, lru_pages);
 
 		}
 	}
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are

origin.patch
mm-vmscan-respect-numa-policy-mask-when-shrinking-slab-on-direct-reclaim.patch
mm-vmscan-move-call-to-shrink_slab-to-shrink_zones.patch
mm-vmscan-remove-shrink_control-arg-from-do_try_to_free_pages.patch

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