The patch titled
Subject: mm, vmscan: avoid passing in remaining unnecessarily to prepare_kswapd_sleep
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-vmscan-avoid-passing-in-remaining-unnecessarily-to-prepare_kswapd_sleep.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-vmscan-avoid-passing-in-remaining-unnecessarily-to-prepare_kswapd_sleep.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-vmscan-avoid-passing-in-remaining-unnecessarily-to-prepare_kswapd_sleep.patch
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm, vmscan: avoid passing in remaining unnecessarily to prepare_kswapd_sleep
As pointed out by Minchan Kim, the first call to prepare_kswapd_sleep
always passes in 0 for remaining and the second call can trivially
check the parameter in advance.
Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-27-git-send-email-mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 12 ++++--------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-avoid-passing-in-remaining-unnecessarily-to-prepare_kswapd_sleep mm/vmscan.c
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-avoid-passing-in-remaining-unnecessarily-to-prepare_kswapd_sleep
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3020,15 +3020,10 @@ static bool zone_balanced(struct zone *z
*
* Returns true if kswapd is ready to sleep
*/
-static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining,
- int classzone_idx)
+static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx)
{
int i;
- /* If a direct reclaimer woke kswapd within HZ/10, it's premature */
- if (remaining)
- return false;
-
/*
* The throttled processes are normally woken up in balance_pgdat() as
* soon as pfmemalloc_watermark_ok() is true. But there is a potential
@@ -3243,7 +3238,7 @@ static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_
prepare_to_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
/* Try to sleep for a short interval */
- if (prepare_kswapd_sleep(pgdat, reclaim_order, remaining, classzone_idx)) {
+ if (prepare_kswapd_sleep(pgdat, reclaim_order, classzone_idx)) {
/*
* Compaction records what page blocks it recently failed to
* isolate pages from and skips them in the future scanning.
@@ -3278,7 +3273,8 @@ static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_
* After a short sleep, check if it was a premature sleep. If not, then
* go fully to sleep until explicitly woken up.
*/
- if (prepare_kswapd_sleep(pgdat, reclaim_order, remaining, classzone_idx)) {
+ if (!remaining &&
+ prepare_kswapd_sleep(pgdat, reclaim_order, classzone_idx)) {
trace_mm_vmscan_kswapd_sleep(pgdat->node_id);
/*
_
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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