The patch titled Subject: mm: vmscan: move swappiness out of scan_control has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-vmscan-move-swappiness-out-of-scan_control.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-vmscan-move-swappiness-out-of-scan_control.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-vmscan-move-swappiness-out-of-scan_control.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: vmscan: move swappiness out of scan_control Swappiness is determined for each scanned memcg individually in shrink_zone() and is not a parameter that applies throughout the reclaim scan. Move it out of struct scan_control to prevent accidental use of a stale value. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 27 +++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-move-swappiness-out-of-scan_control mm/vmscan.c --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-move-swappiness-out-of-scan_control +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -89,9 +89,6 @@ struct scan_control { /* Scan (total_size >> priority) pages at once */ int priority; - /* anon vs. file LRUs scanning "ratio" */ - int swappiness; - /* * The memory cgroup that hit its limit and as a result is the * primary target of this reclaim invocation. @@ -1874,8 +1871,8 @@ enum scan_balance { * nr[0] = anon inactive pages to scan; nr[1] = anon active pages to scan * nr[2] = file inactive pages to scan; nr[3] = file active pages to scan */ -static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc, - unsigned long *nr) +static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, int swappiness, + struct scan_control *sc, unsigned long *nr) { struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = &lruvec->reclaim_stat; u64 fraction[2]; @@ -1918,7 +1915,7 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec * using the memory controller's swap limit feature would be * too expensive. */ - if (!global_reclaim(sc) && !sc->swappiness) { + if (!global_reclaim(sc) && !swappiness) { scan_balance = SCAN_FILE; goto out; } @@ -1928,7 +1925,7 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec * system is close to OOM, scan both anon and file equally * (unless the swappiness setting disagrees with swapping). */ - if (!sc->priority && sc->swappiness) { + if (!sc->priority && swappiness) { scan_balance = SCAN_EQUAL; goto out; } @@ -1971,7 +1968,7 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec * With swappiness at 100, anonymous and file have the same priority. * This scanning priority is essentially the inverse of IO cost. */ - anon_prio = sc->swappiness; + anon_prio = swappiness; file_prio = 200 - anon_prio; /* @@ -2061,7 +2058,8 @@ out: /* * This is a basic per-zone page freer. Used by both kswapd and direct reclaim. */ -static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc) +static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, int swappiness, + struct scan_control *sc) { unsigned long nr[NR_LRU_LISTS]; unsigned long targets[NR_LRU_LISTS]; @@ -2072,7 +2070,7 @@ static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec struct blk_plug plug; bool scan_adjusted; - get_scan_count(lruvec, sc, nr); + get_scan_count(lruvec, swappiness, sc, nr); /* Record the original scan target for proportional adjustments later */ memcpy(targets, nr, sizeof(nr)); @@ -2269,11 +2267,12 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zone(struct memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(root, NULL, &reclaim); do { struct lruvec *lruvec; + int swappiness; lruvec = mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone, memcg); + swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg); - sc->swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg); - shrink_lruvec(lruvec, sc); + shrink_lruvec(lruvec, swappiness, sc); /* * Direct reclaim and kswapd have to scan all memory @@ -2720,10 +2719,10 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zon .may_swap = !noswap, .order = 0, .priority = 0, - .swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg), .target_mem_cgroup = memcg, }; struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone, memcg); + int swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg); sc.gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) | (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK); @@ -2739,7 +2738,7 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zon * will pick up pages from other mem cgroup's as well. We hack * the priority and make it zero. */ - shrink_lruvec(lruvec, &sc); + shrink_lruvec(lruvec, swappiness, &sc); trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_end(sc.nr_reclaimed); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx are vmalloc-use-rcu-list-iterator-to-reduce-vmap_area_lock-contention.patch memcg-cleanup-memcg_cache_params-refcnt-usage.patch memcg-destroy-kmem-caches-when-last-slab-is-freed.patch memcg-mark-caches-that-belong-to-offline-memcgs-as-dead.patch slub-dont-fail-kmem_cache_shrink-if-slab-placement-optimization-fails.patch slub-make-slab_free-non-preemptable.patch memcg-wait-for-kfrees-to-finish-before-destroying-cache.patch slub-make-dead-memcg-caches-discard-free-slabs-immediately.patch slab-do-not-keep-free-objects-slabs-on-dead-memcg-caches.patch mm-page-flags-clean-up-the-page-flag-test-set-clear-macros.patch mm-memcontrol-fold-mem_cgroup_do_charge.patch mm-memcontrol-rearrange-charging-fast-path.patch mm-memcontrol-reclaim-at-least-once-for-__gfp_noretry.patch mm-huge_memory-use-gfp_transhuge-when-charging-huge-pages.patch mm-memcontrol-retry-reclaim-for-oom-disabled-and-__gfp_nofail-charges.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-explicit-oom-parameter-in-charge-path.patch mm-memcontrol-simplify-move-precharge-function.patch mm-memcontrol-catch-root-bypass-in-move-precharge.patch mm-memcontrol-use-root_mem_cgroup-res_counter.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-ordering-between-pc-mem_cgroup-and-pagecgroupused.patch mm-memcontrol-do-not-acquire-page_cgroup-lock-for-kmem-pages.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-charge-api.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-charge-api-fix-3.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-2.patch memcg-remove-lookup_cgroup_page-prototype.patch mm-vmscan-remove-remains-of-kswapd-managed-zone-all_unreclaimable.patch mm-vmscan-rework-compaction-ready-signaling-in-direct-reclaim.patch mm-vmscan-remove-all_unreclaimable.patch mm-vmscan-move-swappiness-out-of-scan_control.patch memcg-deprecate-memoryforce_empty-knob.patch memcg-deprecate-memoryforce_empty-knob-fix.patch debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html