Thread (57 messages) 57 messages, 7 authors, 2012-12-19

Re: [patch 3/8] mm: vmscan: save work scanning (almost) empty LRU lists

From: Michal Hocko <hidden>
Date: 2012-12-13 15:43:50
Also in: lkml

On Wed 12-12-12 16:43:35, Johannes Weiner wrote:
In certain cases (kswapd reclaim, memcg target reclaim), a fixed
minimum amount of pages is scanned from the LRU lists on each
iteration, to make progress.

Do not make this minimum bigger than the respective LRU list size,
however, and save some busy work trying to isolate and reclaim pages
that are not there.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Hmm, shrink_lruvec would do:
	nr_to_scan = min_t(unsigned long,
			   nr[lru], SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX);
	nr[lru] -= nr_to_scan;
and isolate_lru_pages does
	for (scan = 0; scan < nr_to_scan && !list_empty(src); scan++)
so it shouldn't matter and we shouldn't do any additional loops, right?

Anyway it would be beter if get_scan_count wouldn't ask for more than is
available.
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 include/linux/swap.h |  2 +-
 mm/vmscan.c          | 10 ++++++----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index 68df9c1..8c66486 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ enum {
 	SWP_SCANNING	= (1 << 8),	/* refcount in scan_swap_map */
 };
 
-#define SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX 32
+#define SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX 32UL
 #define COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
 
 /*
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 6e53446..1763e79 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1748,15 +1748,17 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
 out:
 	for_each_evictable_lru(lru) {
 		int file = is_file_lru(lru);
+		unsigned long size;
 		unsigned long scan;
 
-		scan = get_lru_size(lruvec, lru);
+		size = get_lru_size(lruvec, lru);
+		size = scan = get_lru_size(lruvec, lru);
 		if (sc->priority || noswap) {
-			scan >>= sc->priority;
+			scan = size >> sc->priority;
 			if (!scan && force_scan)
-				scan = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
+				scan = min(size, SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX);
 			scan = div64_u64(scan * fraction[file], denominator);
-		}
+		} else
+			scan = size;
And this is not necessary then but this is totally nit.
 		nr[lru] = scan;
 	}
 }
-- 
1.7.11.7
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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