Thread (41 messages) 41 messages, 4 authors, 2012-03-15

Re: [PATCH 3/7] mm: rework __isolate_lru_page() file/anon filter

From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Date: 2012-03-03 00:23:04
Also in: lkml

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
This patch adds file/anon filter bits into isolate_mode_t,
this allows to simplify checks in __isolate_lru_page().

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <redacted>
Almost-Acked-by: Hugh Dickins [off-list ref]

with one whitespace nit, and one functional addition requested.

I'm perfectly happy with your :?s myself, but some people do dislike
them.  I'm happy with the switch alternative if it's as efficient:
something that surprised me very much when trying to get convincing
performance numbers for per-memcg per-zone lru_lock at home...

... __isolate_lru_page() featured astonishly high on the perf report
of streaming from files on ext4 on /dev/ram0 to /dev/null, coming
immediately below the obvious zeroing and copying: okay, the zeroing
and copying were around 30% each, and __isolate_lru_page() down around
2% or below, but even so it seemed very odd that it should feature so
high, and any optimizations to it very welcome - unless it was purely
some bogus result.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 include/linux/mmzone.h |    4 ++++
 include/linux/swap.h   |    2 +-
 mm/compaction.c        |    5 +++--
 mm/vmscan.c            |   27 +++++++++++++--------------
 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index eff4918..2fed935 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -193,6 +193,10 @@ struct lruvec {
 #define ISOLATE_UNMAPPED	((__force isolate_mode_t)0x8)
 /* Isolate for asynchronous migration */
 #define ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE	((__force isolate_mode_t)0x10)
+/* Isolate swap-backed pages */
+#define	ISOLATE_ANON		((__force isolate_mode_t)0x20)
+/* Isolate file-backed pages */
+#define	ISOLATE_FILE		((__force isolate_mode_t)0x40)
From the patch you can see that the #defines above yours used a
space where you have used a tab: better to use a space as above.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -375,7 +376,7 @@ static isolate_migrate_t isolate_migratepages(struct zone *zone,
 			mode |= ISOLATE_ASYNC_MIGRATE;
 
 		/* Try isolate the page */
-		if (__isolate_lru_page(page, mode, 0) != 0)
+		if (__isolate_lru_page(page, mode) != 0)
 			continue;
I thought you were missing something there, but no, that's rather
the case you are simplifying.  However...
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index af6cfe7..1b70338 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1520,6 +1511,10 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct mem_cgroup_zone *mz,
 		isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_UNMAPPED;
 	if (!sc->may_writepage)
 		isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_CLEAN;
+	if (file)
+		isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_FILE;
+	else
+		isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_ANON;
Above here, under "if (sc->reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_MODE_LUMPYRECLAIM)",
don't you need

		isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_ACTIVE | ISOLATE_FILE | ISOLATE_ANON;

now to reproduce the same "all_lru_mode" behaviour as before?

Hugh

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