The patch titled
Subject: mm, vmscan: have kswapd only scan based on the highest requested zone
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-vmscan-have-kswapd-only-scan-based-on-the-highest-requested-zone.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-vmscan-have-kswapd-only-scan-based-on-the-highest-requested-zone.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-vmscan-have-kswapd-only-scan-based-on-the-highest-requested-zone.patch
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm, vmscan: have kswapd only scan based on the highest requested zone
kswapd checks all eligible zones to see if they need balancing even if it
was woken for a lower zone. This made sense when we reclaimed on a
per-zone basis because we wanted to shrink zones fairly so avoid
age-inversion problems. Ideally this is completely unnecessary when
reclaiming on a per-node basis. In theory, there may still be anomalies
when all requests are for lower zones and very old pages are preserved in
higher zones but this should be the exceptional case.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466518566-30034-6-git-send-email-mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 7 ++-----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-have-kswapd-only-scan-based-on-the-highest-requested-zone mm/vmscan.c
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-have-kswapd-only-scan-based-on-the-highest-requested-zone
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3207,11 +3207,8 @@ static int balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgda
sc.nr_reclaimed = 0;
- /*
- * Scan in the highmem->dma direction for the highest
- * zone which needs scanning
- */
- for (i = pgdat->nr_zones - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+ /* Scan from the highest requested zone to dma */
+ for (i = classzone_idx; i >= 0; i--) {
struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
if (!populated_zone(zone))
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-slaub-add-__gfp_atomic-to-the-gfp-reclaim-mask.patch
mm-vmstat-add-infrastructure-for-per-node-vmstats.patch
mm-vmscan-move-lru_lock-to-the-node.patch
mm-vmscan-move-lru-lists-to-node.patch
mm-vmscan-begin-reclaiming-pages-on-a-per-node-basis.patch
mm-vmscan-have-kswapd-only-scan-based-on-the-highest-requested-zone.patch
mm-vmscan-make-kswapd-reclaim-in-terms-of-nodes.patch
mm-vmscan-remove-balance-gap.patch
mm-vmscan-simplify-the-logic-deciding-whether-kswapd-sleeps.patch
mm-vmscan-by-default-have-direct-reclaim-only-shrink-once-per-node.patch
mm-vmscan-remove-duplicate-logic-clearing-node-congestion-and-dirty-state.patch
mm-vmscan-do-not-reclaim-from-kswapd-if-there-is-any-eligible-zone.patch
mm-vmscan-make-shrink_node-decisions-more-node-centric.patch
mm-memcg-move-memcg-limit-enforcement-from-zones-to-nodes.patch
mm-workingset-make-working-set-detection-node-aware.patch
mm-page_alloc-consider-dirtyable-memory-in-terms-of-nodes.patch
mm-move-page-mapped-accounting-to-the-node.patch
mm-rename-nr_anon_pages-to-nr_anon_mapped.patch
mm-move-most-file-based-accounting-to-the-node.patch
mm-move-vmscan-writes-and-file-write-accounting-to-the-node.patch
mm-vmscan-update-classzone_idx-if-buffer_heads_over_limit.patch
mm-vmscan-only-wakeup-kswapd-once-per-node-for-the-requested-classzone.patch
mm-convert-zone_reclaim-to-node_reclaim.patch
mm-vmscan-add-classzone-information-to-tracepoints.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-fair-zone-allocation-policy.patch
mm-page_alloc-cache-the-last-node-whose-dirty-limit-is-reached.patch
mm-vmstat-replace-__count_zone_vm_events-with-a-zone-id-equivalent.patch
mm-vmstat-account-per-zone-stalls-and-pages-skipped-during-reclaim.patch
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