From: Ridong Chen <ridong.chen@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>, Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>,
Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ridong.chen@linux.dev,
Ridong Chen <chenridong@xiaomi.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mm: vmscan: fix node reclaim ignoring swappiness parameter
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:11:57 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260711091157.306070-3-ridong.chen@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260711091157.306070-1-ridong.chen@linux.dev>
From: Ridong Chen <chenridong@xiaomi.com>
sc_swappiness() had two separate definitions depending on
CONFIG_MEMCG. The !CONFIG_MEMCG variant simply returned
vm_swappiness, ignoring the proactive_swappiness value passed
through scan_control. This caused the swappiness parameter
written to /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/reclaim to have no
effect when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled.
Fix this by consolidating sc_swappiness() into a single definition
that checks sc->proactive_swappiness first, then falls back to
mem_cgroup_swappiness() which already handles both CONFIG_MEMCG
and !CONFIG_MEMCG.
Before fix (swappiness=max ignored, mostly file pages reclaimed):
# cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
60
# cat /proc/vmstat | grep pgsteal
pgsteal_kswapd 0
pgsteal_direct 0
pgsteal_khugepaged 0
pgsteal_proactive 1840
pgsteal_anon 25
pgsteal_file 1815
# echo "64M swappiness=max" > /sys/devices/system/node/node0/reclaim
# cat /proc/vmstat | grep pgsteal
pgsteal_kswapd 0
pgsteal_direct 0
pgsteal_khugepaged 0
pgsteal_proactive 18013
pgsteal_anon 337
pgsteal_file 17676
After fix (swappiness=max honored, anon pages reclaimed as expected):
# cat /proc/vmstat | grep pgsteal
pgsteal_kswapd 0
pgsteal_direct 0
pgsteal_khugepaged 0
pgsteal_proactive 0
pgsteal_anon 0
pgsteal_file 0
# echo "64M swappiness=max" > /sys/devices/system/node/node0/reclaim
# cat /proc/vmstat | grep pgsteal
pgsteal_kswapd 0
pgsteal_direct 0
pgsteal_khugepaged 0
pgsteal_proactive 16283
pgsteal_anon 16283
pgsteal_file 0
Fixes: 68cd9050d871 ("mm: add swappiness= arg to memory.reclaim")
Signed-off-by: Ridong Chen <chenridong@xiaomi.com>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 17 +++++++----------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 35c3bb15ae96..5271bd023c1d 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -198,6 +198,13 @@ struct scan_control {
*/
int vm_swappiness = 60;
+static int sc_swappiness(struct scan_control *sc, struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+ if (sc->proactive && sc->proactive_swappiness)
+ return *sc->proactive_swappiness;
+ return mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg);
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
/* Returns true for reclaim through cgroup limits or cgroup interfaces. */
@@ -239,12 +246,6 @@ static bool writeback_throttling_sane(struct scan_control *sc)
return false;
}
-static int sc_swappiness(struct scan_control *sc, struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
- if (sc->proactive && sc->proactive_swappiness)
- return *sc->proactive_swappiness;
- return mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg);
-}
#else
static bool cgroup_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc)
{
@@ -261,10 +262,6 @@ static bool writeback_throttling_sane(struct scan_control *sc)
return true;
}
-static int sc_swappiness(struct scan_control *sc, struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
- return READ_ONCE(vm_swappiness);
-}
#endif
static void set_task_reclaim_state(struct task_struct *task,
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-11 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-11 9:11 [PATCH 0/2] mm: fix node reclaim swappiness handling Ridong Chen
2026-07-11 9:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] memcg: move mem_cgroup_swappiness to memcontrol.h Ridong Chen
2026-07-13 15:08 ` Barry Song
2026-07-14 1:19 ` Ridong Chen
2026-07-14 1:43 ` Barry Song
2026-07-14 1:48 ` Barry Song
2026-07-14 7:42 ` Ridong Chen
2026-07-14 10:21 ` Barry Song
2026-07-14 11:31 ` Ridong Chen
2026-07-14 13:46 ` Barry Song
2026-07-11 9:11 ` Ridong Chen [this message]
2026-07-13 11:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: vmscan: fix node reclaim ignoring swappiness parameter Johannes Weiner
2026-07-14 7:58 ` Ridong Chen
2026-07-13 15:16 ` Barry Song
2026-07-14 1:10 ` Ridong Chen
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