The patch titled Subject: mm, vmscan: remove duplicate logic clearing node congestion and dirty state has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-vmscan-remove-duplicate-logic-clearing-node-congestion-and-dirty-state.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-vmscan-remove-duplicate-logic-clearing-node-congestion-and-dirty-state.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-vmscan-remove-duplicate-logic-clearing-node-congestion-and-dirty-state.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: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, vmscan: remove duplicate logic clearing node congestion and dirty state Reclaim may stall if there is too much dirty or congested data on a node. This was previously based on zone flags and the logic for clearing the flags is in two places. As congestion/dirty tracking is now tracked on a per-node basis, we can remove some duplicate logic. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466518566-30034-11-git-send-email-mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-remove-duplicate-logic-clearing-node-congestion-and-dirty-state mm/vmscan.c --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-remove-duplicate-logic-clearing-node-congestion-and-dirty-state +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -3002,7 +3002,17 @@ static bool zone_balanced(struct zone *z { unsigned long mark = high_wmark_pages(zone); - return zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order, mark, classzone_idx); + if (!zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order, mark, classzone_idx)) + return false; + + /* + * If any eligible zone is balanced then the node is not considered + * to be congested or dirty + */ + clear_bit(PGDAT_CONGESTED, &zone->zone_pgdat->flags); + clear_bit(PGDAT_DIRTY, &zone->zone_pgdat->flags); + + return true; } /* @@ -3148,13 +3158,6 @@ static int balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgda if (!zone_balanced(zone, order, 0)) { classzone_idx = i; break; - } else { - /* - * If any eligible zone is balanced then the - * node is not considered congested or dirty. - */ - clear_bit(PGDAT_CONGESTED, &zone->zone_pgdat->flags); - clear_bit(PGDAT_DIRTY, &zone->zone_pgdat->flags); } } @@ -3213,11 +3216,8 @@ static int balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgda if (!populated_zone(zone)) continue; - if (zone_balanced(zone, sc.order, classzone_idx)) { - clear_bit(PGDAT_CONGESTED, &pgdat->flags); - clear_bit(PGDAT_DIRTY, &pgdat->flags); + if (zone_balanced(zone, sc.order, classzone_idx)) goto out; - } } /* _ 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 -- 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