+ mm-reclaim-cleanup-should_continue_reclaim.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: mm, reclaim: cleanup should_continue_reclaim()
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-reclaim-cleanup-should_continue_reclaim.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-reclaim-cleanup-should_continue_reclaim.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-reclaim-cleanup-should_continue_reclaim.patch

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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Subject: mm, reclaim: cleanup should_continue_reclaim()

After commit "mm, reclaim: make should_continue_reclaim perform dryrun
detection", closer look at the function shows, that nr_reclaimed == 0
means the function will always return false.  And since non-zero
nr_reclaimed implies non_zero nr_scanned, testing nr_scanned serves no
purpose, and so does the testing for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL.

This patch thus cleans up the function to test only !nr_reclaimed upfront,
and remove the __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL test and nr_scanned parameter
completely.  Comment is also updated, explaining that approximating "full
LRU list has been scanned" with nr_scanned == 0 didn't really work.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190806014744.15446-3-mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/vmscan.c |   43 ++++++++++++++-----------------------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-reclaim-cleanup-should_continue_reclaim
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2586,7 +2586,6 @@ static bool in_reclaim_compaction(struct
  */
 static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
 					unsigned long nr_reclaimed,
-					unsigned long nr_scanned,
 					struct scan_control *sc)
 {
 	unsigned long pages_for_compaction;
@@ -2597,28 +2596,18 @@ static inline bool should_continue_recla
 	if (!in_reclaim_compaction(sc))
 		return false;
 
-	/* Consider stopping depending on scan and reclaim activity */
-	if (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL) {
-		/*
-		 * For __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations, stop reclaiming if the
-		 * full LRU list has been scanned and we are still failing
-		 * to reclaim pages. This full LRU scan is potentially
-		 * expensive but a __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL caller really wants to succeed
-		 */
-		if (!nr_reclaimed && !nr_scanned)
-			return false;
-	} else {
-		/*
-		 * For non-__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations which can presumably
-		 * fail without consequence, stop if we failed to reclaim
-		 * any pages from the last SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX number of
-		 * pages that were scanned. This will return to the
-		 * caller faster at the risk reclaim/compaction and
-		 * the resulting allocation attempt fails
-		 */
-		if (!nr_reclaimed)
-			return false;
-	}
+	/*
+	 * Stop if we failed to reclaim any pages from the last SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
+	 * number of pages that were scanned. This will return to the caller
+	 * with the risk reclaim/compaction and the resulting allocation attempt
+	 * fails. In the past we have tried harder for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
+	 * allocations through requiring that the full LRU list has been scanned
+	 * first, by assuming that zero delta of sc->nr_scanned means full LRU
+	 * scan, but that approximation was wrong, and there were corner cases
+	 * where always a non-zero amount of pages were scanned.
+	 */
+	if (!nr_reclaimed)
+		return false;
 
 	/* If compaction would go ahead or the allocation would succeed, stop */
 	for (z = 0; z <= sc->reclaim_idx; z++) {
@@ -2645,11 +2634,7 @@ static inline bool should_continue_recla
 	if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
 		inactive_lru_pages += node_page_state(pgdat, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
 
-	return inactive_lru_pages > pages_for_compaction &&
-		/*
-		 * avoid dryrun with plenty of inactive pages
-		 */
-		nr_scanned && nr_reclaimed;
+	return inactive_lru_pages > pages_for_compaction;
 }
 
 static bool pgdat_memcg_congested(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
@@ -2812,7 +2797,7 @@ static bool shrink_node(pg_data_t *pgdat
 			wait_iff_congested(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
 
 	} while (should_continue_reclaim(pgdat, sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed,
-					 sc->nr_scanned - nr_scanned, sc));
+					 sc));
 
 	/*
 	 * Kswapd gives up on balancing particular nodes after too
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from vbabka@xxxxxxx are

mm-compaction-clear-total_migratefree_scanned-before-scanning-a-new-zone-fix-2.patch
mm-reclaim-cleanup-should_continue_reclaim.patch
mm-compaction-raise-compaction-priority-after-it-withdrawns.patch




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