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memcg: fix get_scan_count() for small targets 

During memory reclaim we determine the number of pages to be scanned per
zone as

	(anon + file) >> priority.
Assume
	scan = (anon + file) >> priority.

If scan < SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, the scan will be skipped for this time and
priority gets higher.  This has some problems.

  1. This increases priority as 1 without any scan.
     To do scan in this priority, amount of pages should be larger than 512M.
     If pages>>priority < SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, it's recorded and scan will be
     batched, later. (But we lose 1 priority.)
     If memory size is below 16M, pages >> priority is 0 and no scan in
     DEF_PRIORITY forever.

  2. If zone->all_unreclaimabe==true, it's scanned only when priority==0.
     So, x86's ZONE_DMA will never be recoverred until the user of pages
     frees memory by itself.

  3. With memcg, the limit of memory can be small. When using small memcg,
     it gets priority < DEF_PRIORITY-2 very easily and need to call
     wait_iff_congested().
     For doing scan before priorty=9, 64MB of memory should be used.

Then, this patch tries to scan SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX of pages in force...when

  1. the target is enough small.
  2. it's kswapd or memcg reclaim.

Then we can avoid rapid priority drop and may be able to recover
all_unreclaimable in a small zones.  And this patch removes nr_saved_scan.
 This will allow scanning in this priority even when pages >> priority is
very small.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 2011-05-26 16:25:34 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 889976dbcb
commit 246e87a939
3 changed files with 34 additions and 35 deletions
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5
include/linux/mmzone.h
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@ -273,11 +273,6 @@ struct zone_reclaim_stat {
*/
unsigned long recent_rotated[2];
unsigned long recent_scanned[2];
/*
* accumulated for batching
*/
unsigned long nr_saved_scan[NR_LRU_LISTS];
};
struct zone {

4
mm/page_alloc.c
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@ -4323,10 +4323,8 @@ static void __paginginit free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
zone->zone_pgdat = pgdat;
zone_pcp_init(zone);
for_each_lru(l) {
for_each_lru(l)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&zone->lru[l].list);
zone->reclaim_stat.nr_saved_scan[l] = 0;
}
zone->reclaim_stat.recent_rotated[0] = 0;
zone->reclaim_stat.recent_rotated[1] = 0;
zone->reclaim_stat.recent_scanned[0] = 0;

60
mm/vmscan.c
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@ -1717,26 +1717,6 @@ static unsigned long shrink_list(enum lru_list lru, unsigned long nr_to_scan,
return shrink_inactive_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc, priority, file);
}
/*
* Smallish @nr_to_scan's are deposited in @nr_saved_scan,
* until we collected @swap_cluster_max pages to scan.
*/
static unsigned long nr_scan_try_batch(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
unsigned long *nr_saved_scan)
{
unsigned long nr;
*nr_saved_scan += nr_to_scan;
nr = *nr_saved_scan;
if (nr >= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX)
*nr_saved_scan = 0;
else
nr = 0;
return nr;
}
/*
* Determine how aggressively the anon and file LRU lists should be
* scanned. The relative value of each set of LRU lists is determined
@ -1755,6 +1735,22 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc,
u64 fraction[2], denominator;
enum lru_list l;
int noswap = 0;
int force_scan = 0;
anon = zone_nr_lru_pages(zone, sc, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON) +
zone_nr_lru_pages(zone, sc, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON);
file = zone_nr_lru_pages(zone, sc, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE) +
zone_nr_lru_pages(zone, sc, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE);
if (((anon + file) >> priority) < SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX) {
/* kswapd does zone balancing and need to scan this zone */
if (scanning_global_lru(sc) && current_is_kswapd())
force_scan = 1;
/* memcg may have small limit and need to avoid priority drop */
if (!scanning_global_lru(sc))
force_scan = 1;
}
/* If we have no swap space, do not bother scanning anon pages. */
if (!sc->may_swap || (nr_swap_pages <= 0)) {
@ -1765,11 +1761,6 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc,
goto out;
}
anon = zone_nr_lru_pages(zone, sc, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON) +
zone_nr_lru_pages(zone, sc, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON);
file = zone_nr_lru_pages(zone, sc, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE) +
zone_nr_lru_pages(zone, sc, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE);
if (scanning_global_lru(sc)) {
free = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
/* If we have very few page cache pages,
@ -1836,8 +1827,23 @@ out:
scan >>= priority;
scan = div64_u64(scan * fraction[file], denominator);
}
nr[l] = nr_scan_try_batch(scan,
&reclaim_stat->nr_saved_scan[l]);
/*
* If zone is small or memcg is small, nr[l] can be 0.
* This results no-scan on this priority and priority drop down.
* For global direct reclaim, it can visit next zone and tend
* not to have problems. For global kswapd, it's for zone
* balancing and it need to scan a small amounts. When using
* memcg, priority drop can cause big latency. So, it's better
* to scan small amount. See may_noscan above.
*/
if (!scan && force_scan) {
if (file)
scan = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
else if (!noswap)
scan = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
}
nr[l] = scan;
}
}