The patch titled Subject: mm, vmscan: account for skipped pages as a partial scan has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-vmscan-account-for-skipped-pages-as-a-partial-scan.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-vmscan-account-for-skipped-pages-as-a-partial-scan.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-vmscan-account-for-skipped-pages-as-a-partial-scan.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: account for skipped pages as a partial scan Page reclaim determines whether a pgdat is unreclaimable by examining how many pages have been scanned since a page was freed and comparing that to the LRU sizes. Skipped pages are not reclaim candidates but contribute to scanned. This can prematurely mark a pgdat as unreclaimable and trigger an OOM kill. This patch accounts for skipped pages as a partial scan so that an unreclaimable pgdat will still be marked as such but by scaling the cost of a skip, it'll avoid the pgdat being marked prematurely. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469110261-7365-6-git-send-email-mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-account-for-skipped-pages-as-a-partial-scan mm/vmscan.c --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-account-for-skipped-pages-as-a-partial-scan +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1424,7 +1424,7 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(u LIST_HEAD(pages_skipped); for (scan = 0; scan < nr_to_scan && nr_taken < nr_to_scan && - !list_empty(src); scan++) { + !list_empty(src);) { struct page *page; page = lru_to_page(src); @@ -1438,6 +1438,12 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(u continue; } + /* + * Account for scanned and skipped separetly to avoid the pgdat + * being prematurely marked unreclaimable by pgdat_reclaimable. + */ + scan++; + switch (__isolate_lru_page(page, mode)) { case 0: nr_pages = hpage_nr_pages(page); @@ -1465,14 +1471,24 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(u */ if (!list_empty(&pages_skipped)) { int zid; + unsigned long total_skipped = 0; - list_splice(&pages_skipped, src); for (zid = 0; zid < MAX_NR_ZONES; zid++) { if (!nr_skipped[zid]) continue; __count_zid_vm_events(PGSCAN_SKIP, zid, nr_skipped[zid]); + total_skipped += nr_skipped[zid]; } + + /* + * Account skipped pages as a partial scan as the pgdat may be + * close to unreclaimable. If the LRU list is empty, account + * skipped pages as a full scan. + */ + scan += list_empty(src) ? total_skipped : total_skipped >> 2; + + list_splice(&pages_skipped, src); } *nr_scanned = scan; trace_mm_vmscan_lru_isolate(sc->reclaim_idx, sc->order, nr_to_scan, scan, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are 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-vmscan-make-shrink_node-decisions-more-node-centric-fix.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-most-file-based-accounting-to-the-node-fix.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-classzone_idx-unnecessarily-to-compaction_ready-fix.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-have-kswapd-reclaim-from-all-zones-if-reclaiming-and-buffer_heads_over_limit-fix.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-account-per-zone-stalls-and-pages-skipped-during-reclaim-fix.patch mm-vmstat-print-node-based-stats-in-zoneinfo-file.patch mm-vmstat-remove-zone-and-node-double-accounting-by-approximating-retries.patch mm-vmstat-remove-zone-and-node-double-accounting-by-approximating-retries-fix.patch mm-pagevec-release-reacquire-lru_lock-on-pgdat-change.patch mm-vmscan-update-all-zone-lru-sizes-before-updating-memcg.patch mm-vmscan-remove-redundant-check-in-shrink_zones.patch mm-vmscan-release-reacquire-lru_lock-on-pgdat-change.patch mm-vmscan-release-reacquire-lru_lock-on-pgdat-change-fix.patch mm-vmscan-remove-highmem_file_pages.patch mm-remove-reclaim-and-compaction-retry-approximations.patch mm-vmscan-account-for-skipped-pages-as-a-partial-scan.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