Subject: + revert-memcg-vmscan-do-not-attempt-soft-limit-reclaim-if-it-would-not-scan-anything.patch added to -mm tree To: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx,mhocko@xxxxxxx,torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:58:02 -0700 The patch titled Subject: revert "memcg, vmscan: do not attempt soft limit reclaim if it would not scan anything" has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is revert-memcg-vmscan-do-not-attempt-soft-limit-reclaim-if-it-would-not-scan-anything.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/revert-memcg-vmscan-do-not-attempt-soft-limit-reclaim-if-it-would-not-scan-anything.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/revert-memcg-vmscan-do-not-attempt-soft-limit-reclaim-if-it-would-not-scan-anything.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: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: revert "memcg, vmscan: do not attempt soft limit reclaim if it would not scan anything" Revert : commit e839b6a1c8d0895803bcbd587595a54f4221a625 : Author: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> : AuthorDate: Thu Sep 12 15:13:30 2013 -0700 : Commit: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> : CommitDate: Thu Sep 12 15:38:01 2013 -0700 : : memcg, vmscan: do not attempt soft limit reclaim if it would not scan anything I merged this prematurely - Michal and Johannes still disagree about the overall design direction and the future remains unclear. Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 6 +----- mm/vmscan.c | 4 +--- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~revert-memcg-vmscan-do-not-attempt-soft-limit-reclaim-if-it-would-not-scan-anything mm/memcontrol.c --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~revert-memcg-vmscan-do-not-attempt-soft-limit-reclaim-if-it-would-not-scan-anything +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -1872,11 +1872,7 @@ enum mem_cgroup_filter_t mem_cgroup_soft_reclaim_eligible(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct mem_cgroup *root) { - struct mem_cgroup *parent; - - if (!memcg) - memcg = root_mem_cgroup; - parent = memcg; + struct mem_cgroup *parent = memcg; if (res_counter_soft_limit_excess(&memcg->res)) return VISIT; diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~revert-memcg-vmscan-do-not-attempt-soft-limit-reclaim-if-it-would-not-scan-anything mm/vmscan.c --- a/mm/vmscan.c~revert-memcg-vmscan-do-not-attempt-soft-limit-reclaim-if-it-would-not-scan-anything +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -142,9 +142,7 @@ static bool global_reclaim(struct scan_c static bool mem_cgroup_should_soft_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc) { - struct mem_cgroup *root = sc->target_mem_cgroup; - return !mem_cgroup_disabled() && - mem_cgroup_soft_reclaim_eligible(root, root) != SKIP_TREE; + return !mem_cgroup_disabled(); } #else static bool global_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are arch-alpha-kernel-systblss-remove-debug-check.patch i-need-old-gcc.patch revert-memcg-vmscan-do-not-fall-into-reclaim-all-pass-too-quickly.patch revert-memcg-track-all-children-over-limit-in-the-root.patch revert-memcg-vmscan-do-not-attempt-soft-limit-reclaim-if-it-would-not-scan-anything.patch revert-memcg-track-children-in-soft-limit-excess-to-improve-soft-limit.patch revert-memcg-enhance-memcg-iterator-to-support-predicates.patch revert-vmscan-memcg-do-softlimit-reclaim-also-for-targeted-reclaim.patch revert-memcg-get-rid-of-soft-limit-tree-infrastructure.patch revert-memcg-vmscan-integrate-soft-reclaim-tighter-with-zone-shrinking-code.patch fs-binfmt_elfc-prevent-a-coredump-with-a-large-vm_map_count-from-oopsing-fix.patch drivers-staging-lustre-lustre-ptlrpc-sec_bulkc-rename-ptrs_per_page.patch makefile-enable-werror=implicit-int-and-werror=strict-prototypes-by-default.patch mm.patch mm-vmalloc-dont-warn-about-vmalloc-allocation-failure-twice-fix.patch binfmt_elfc-use-get_random_int-to-fix-entropy-depleting.patch fat-additions-to-support-fat_fallocate-fix.patch fat-additions-to-support-fat_fallocate-fix-fix.patch linux-next.patch mm-drop-actor-argument-of-do_generic_file_read-fix.patch debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners-fix-2-fix.patch debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners-fix-2-fix-fix-fix.patch journal_add_journal_head-debug.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch slab-leaks3-default-y.patch put_bh-debug.patch revert-memcg-vmscan-do-not-fall-into-reclaim-all-pass-too-quickly.patch revert-memcg-track-all-children-over-limit-in-the-root.patch revert-memcg-vmscan-do-not-attempt-soft-limit-reclaim-if-it-would-not-scan-anything.patch revert-memcg-track-children-in-soft-limit-excess-to-improve-soft-limit.patch revert-memcg-enhance-memcg-iterator-to-support-predicates.patch revert-vmscan-memcg-do-softlimit-reclaim-also-for-targeted-reclaim.patch revert-memcg-get-rid-of-soft-limit-tree-infrastructure.patch revert-memcg-vmscan-integrate-soft-reclaim-tighter-with-zone-shrinking-code.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