Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756185Ab3CQNEY (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Mar 2013 09:04:24 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:51583 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752801Ab3CQNEW (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Mar 2013 09:04:22 -0400 From: Mel Gorman To: Linux-MM Cc: Jiri Slaby , Valdis Kletnieks , Rik van Riel , Zlatko Calusic , Johannes Weiner , dormando , Satoru Moriya , Michal Hocko , LKML , Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 01/10] mm: vmscan: Limit the number of pages kswapd reclaims at each priority Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:04:07 +0000 Message-Id: <1363525456-10448-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.4 In-Reply-To: <1363525456-10448-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> References: <1363525456-10448-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4628 Lines: 133 The number of pages kswapd can reclaim is bound by the number of pages it scans which is related to the size of the zone and the scanning priority. In many cases the priority remains low because it's reset every SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX reclaimed pages but in the event kswapd scans a large number of pages it cannot reclaim, it will raise the priority and potentially discard a large percentage of the zone as sc->nr_to_reclaim is ULONG_MAX. The user-visible effect is a reclaim "spike" where a large percentage of memory is suddenly freed. It would be bad enough if this was just unused memory but because of how anon/file pages are balanced it is possible that applications get pushed to swap unnecessarily. This patch limits the number of pages kswapd will reclaim to the high watermark. Reclaim will will overshoot due to it not being a hard limit as shrink_lruvec() will ignore the sc.nr_to_reclaim at DEF_PRIORITY but it prevents kswapd reclaiming the world at higher priorities. The number of pages it reclaims is not adjusted for high-order allocations as kswapd will reclaim excessively if it is to balance zones for high-order allocations. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman --- mm/vmscan.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 88c5fed..4835a7a 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2593,6 +2593,32 @@ static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining, } /* + * kswapd shrinks the zone by the number of pages required to reach + * the high watermark. + */ +static void kswapd_shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, + struct scan_control *sc, + unsigned long lru_pages) +{ + unsigned long nr_slab; + struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state; + struct shrink_control shrink = { + .gfp_mask = sc->gfp_mask, + }; + + /* Reclaim above the high watermark. */ + sc->nr_to_reclaim = max(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, high_wmark_pages(zone)); + shrink_zone(zone, sc); + + reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0; + nr_slab = shrink_slab(&shrink, sc->nr_scanned, lru_pages); + sc->nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab; + + if (nr_slab == 0 && !zone_reclaimable(zone)) + zone->all_unreclaimable = 1; +} + +/* * For kswapd, balance_pgdat() will work across all this node's zones until * they are all at high_wmark_pages(zone). * @@ -2619,27 +2645,16 @@ static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, bool pgdat_is_balanced = false; int i; int end_zone = 0; /* Inclusive. 0 = ZONE_DMA */ - unsigned long total_scanned; - struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state; unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed; unsigned long nr_soft_scanned; struct scan_control sc = { .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL, .may_unmap = 1, .may_swap = 1, - /* - * kswapd doesn't want to be bailed out while reclaim. because - * we want to put equal scanning pressure on each zone. - */ - .nr_to_reclaim = ULONG_MAX, .order = order, .target_mem_cgroup = NULL, }; - struct shrink_control shrink = { - .gfp_mask = sc.gfp_mask, - }; loop_again: - total_scanned = 0; sc.priority = DEF_PRIORITY; sc.nr_reclaimed = 0; sc.may_writepage = !laptop_mode; @@ -2710,7 +2725,7 @@ loop_again: */ for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) { struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i; - int nr_slab, testorder; + int testorder; unsigned long balance_gap; if (!populated_zone(zone)) @@ -2730,7 +2745,6 @@ loop_again: order, sc.gfp_mask, &nr_soft_scanned); sc.nr_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed; - total_scanned += nr_soft_scanned; /* * We put equal pressure on every zone, unless @@ -2759,17 +2773,8 @@ loop_again: if ((buffer_heads_over_limit && is_highmem_idx(i)) || !zone_balanced(zone, testorder, - balance_gap, end_zone)) { - shrink_zone(zone, &sc); - - reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0; - nr_slab = shrink_slab(&shrink, sc.nr_scanned, lru_pages); - sc.nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab; - total_scanned += sc.nr_scanned; - - if (nr_slab == 0 && !zone_reclaimable(zone)) - zone->all_unreclaimable = 1; - } + balance_gap, end_zone)) + kswapd_shrink_zone(zone, &sc, lru_pages); /* * If we're getting trouble reclaiming, start doing -- 1.8.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/