The patch titled
Subject: mm, vmscan: remove balance gap
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-vmscan-remove-balance-gap.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-vmscan-remove-balance-gap.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-vmscan-remove-balance-gap.patch
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm, vmscan: remove balance gap
The balance gap was introduced to apply equal pressure to all zones when
reclaiming for a higher zone. With node-based LRU, the need for the
balance gap is removed and the code is dead so remove it.
[vbabka@xxxxxxx: Also remove KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-9-git-send-email-mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/swap.h | 9 ---------
mm/vmscan.c | 19 ++++++++-----------
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff -puN include/linux/swap.h~mm-vmscan-remove-balance-gap include/linux/swap.h
--- a/include/linux/swap.h~mm-vmscan-remove-balance-gap
+++ a/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -157,15 +157,6 @@ enum {
#define SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX 32UL
#define COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
-/*
- * Ratio between zone->managed_pages and the "gap" that above the per-zone
- * "high_wmark". While balancing nodes, We allow kswapd to shrink zones that
- * do not meet the (high_wmark + gap) watermark, even which already met the
- * high_wmark, in order to provide better per-zone lru behavior. We are ok to
- * spend not more than 1% of the memory for this zone balancing "gap".
- */
-#define KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO 100
-
#define SWAP_MAP_MAX 0x3e /* Max duplication count, in first swap_map */
#define SWAP_MAP_BAD 0x3f /* Note pageblock is bad, in first swap_map */
#define SWAP_HAS_CACHE 0x40 /* Flag page is cached, in first swap_map */
diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-remove-balance-gap mm/vmscan.c
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-remove-balance-gap
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2518,7 +2518,7 @@ static bool shrink_node(pg_data_t *pgdat
*/
static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order, int classzone_idx)
{
- unsigned long balance_gap, watermark;
+ unsigned long watermark;
bool watermark_ok;
/*
@@ -2527,9 +2527,7 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(stru
* there is a buffer of free pages available to give compaction
* a reasonable chance of completing and allocating the page
*/
- balance_gap = min(low_wmark_pages(zone), DIV_ROUND_UP(
- zone->managed_pages, KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO));
- watermark = high_wmark_pages(zone) + balance_gap + (2UL << order);
+ watermark = high_wmark_pages(zone) + (2UL << order);
watermark_ok = zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, 0, watermark, classzone_idx);
/*
@@ -3000,10 +2998,9 @@ static void age_active_anon(struct pglis
} while (memcg);
}
-static bool zone_balanced(struct zone *zone, int order,
- unsigned long balance_gap, int classzone_idx)
+static bool zone_balanced(struct zone *zone, int order, int classzone_idx)
{
- unsigned long mark = high_wmark_pages(zone) + balance_gap;
+ unsigned long mark = high_wmark_pages(zone);
return zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order, mark, classzone_idx);
}
@@ -3045,7 +3042,7 @@ static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data
if (!populated_zone(zone))
continue;
- if (zone_balanced(zone, order, 0, classzone_idx))
+ if (zone_balanced(zone, order, classzone_idx))
return true;
}
@@ -3148,7 +3145,7 @@ static int balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgda
break;
}
- if (!zone_balanced(zone, order, 0, 0)) {
+ if (!zone_balanced(zone, order, 0)) {
classzone_idx = i;
break;
} else {
@@ -3216,7 +3213,7 @@ static int balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgda
if (!populated_zone(zone))
continue;
- if (zone_balanced(zone, sc.order, 0, classzone_idx)) {
+ if (zone_balanced(zone, sc.order, classzone_idx)) {
clear_bit(PGDAT_CONGESTED, &pgdat->flags);
clear_bit(PGDAT_DIRTY, &pgdat->flags);
goto out;
@@ -3427,7 +3424,7 @@ void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, in
}
if (!waitqueue_active(&pgdat->kswapd_wait))
return;
- if (zone_balanced(zone, order, 0, 0))
+ if (zone_balanced(zone, order, 0))
return;
trace_mm_vmscan_wakeup_kswapd(pgdat->node_id, zone_idx(zone), order);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-meminit-always-return-a-valid-node-from-early_pfn_to_nid.patch
mm-meminit-ensure-node-is-online-before-checking-whether-pages-are-uninitialised.patch
mm-meminit-remove-early_page_nid_uninitialised.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-mmzone-clarify-the-usage-of-zone-padding.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-only-wakeup-kswapd-once-per-node-for-the-requested-classzone.patch
mm-page_alloc-wake-kswapd-based-on-the-highest-eligible-zone.patch
mm-convert-zone_reclaim-to-node_reclaim.patch
mm-vmscan-avoid-passing-in-classzone_idx-unnecessarily-to-shrink_node.patch
mm-vmscan-avoid-passing-in-classzone_idx-unnecessarily-to-compaction_ready.patch
mm-vmscan-avoid-passing-in-remaining-unnecessarily-to-prepare_kswapd_sleep.patch
mm-vmscan-have-kswapd-reclaim-from-all-zones-if-reclaiming-and-buffer_heads_over_limit.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
mm-vmstat-print-node-based-stats-in-zoneinfo-file.patch
mm-vmstat-remove-zone-and-node-double-accounting-by-approximating-retries.patch
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