From: Ridong Chen <ridong.chen@linux.dev>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org, david@kernel.org, mhocko@kernel.org,
qi.zheng@linux.dev, shakeel.butt@linux.dev, ljs@kernel.org,
kasong@tencent.com, baohua@kernel.org, axelrasmussen@google.com,
yuanchu@google.com, weixugc@google.com,
hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com, muchun.song@linux.dev,
dave@stgolabs.net, roman.gushchin@linux.dev, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ridong.chen@linux.dev,
Ridong Chen <chenridong@xiaomi.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/4] mm/mglru: fix anon-only reclaim evicting file pages when swappiness=max
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:52:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260718095251.82937-5-ridong.chen@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260718095251.82937-1-ridong.chen@linux.dev>
From: Ridong Chen <chenridong@xiaomi.com>
The previous patch fixes this issue for the traditional LRU, which also
exists in MGLRU [1]. Fix this by checking whether swappiness is
SWAPPINESS_ANON_ONLY in get_swappiness() first, and returning 0 from
get_nr_to_scan() when swappiness is SWAPPINESS_ANON_ONLY and anon pages
cannot be reclaimed, to avoid useless work.
The test result:
Before fix:
# cat /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled
0x0007
# cat memory.stat
anon 204800
file 67108864
...
pgsteal_proactive 0
pgscan_proactive 0
# echo "64M swappiness=max" > memory.reclaim
# cat memory.stat
anon 208896
file 0
...
pgsteal_proactive 16384
pgscan_proactive 16384
After fix:
# cat memory.stat
anon 188416
file 67215360
kernel 1970176
...
pgsteal_proactive 0
pgscan_proactive 0
# echo "64M swappiness=max" > memory.reclaim
-bash: echo: write error: Resource temporarily unavailable
# cat memory.stat
anon 204800
file 67215360
...
pgsteal_proactive 0
pgscan_proactive 0
[1] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260717113300.214717-1-ridong.chen@linux.dev
Fixes: 68a1436bde00 ("mm: add swappiness=max arg to memory.reclaim for only anon reclaim")
Signed-off-by: Ridong Chen <chenridong@xiaomi.com>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index e1ef6350a300..240b04f0a21a 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2702,6 +2702,10 @@ static int get_swappiness(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = lruvec_memcg(lruvec);
struct pglist_data *pgdat = lruvec_pgdat(lruvec);
+ int swappiness = sc_swappiness(sc, memcg);
+
+ if (swappiness == SWAPPINESS_ANON_ONLY)
+ return swappiness;
if (!sc->may_swap)
return 0;
@@ -2710,7 +2714,7 @@ static int get_swappiness(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(memcg) < MIN_LRU_BATCH)
return 0;
- return sc_swappiness(sc, memcg);
+ return swappiness;
}
static int get_nr_gens(struct lruvec *lruvec, int type)
@@ -4915,6 +4919,14 @@ static long get_nr_to_scan(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int swappiness)
{
unsigned long nr_to_scan, evictable;
+ struct pglist_data *pgdat = lruvec_pgdat(lruvec);
+
+ /* Proactive reclaim: anon-only requested but anon is not reclaimable */
+ if (swappiness == SWAPPINESS_ANON_ONLY &&
+ !can_reclaim_anon_pages(memcg, pgdat->node_id, sc)) {
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!sc->proactive);
+ return 0;
+ }
evictable = lruvec_evictable_size(lruvec, swappiness);
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-18 9:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-18 9:52 [PATCH v2 0/4] mm/vmscan: fix swappiness=max and clean up per-node proactive reclaim Ridong Chen
2026-07-18 9:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] mm/vmscan: fix anon-only reclaim evicting file pages when swappiness=max Ridong Chen
2026-07-18 13:34 ` Barry Song
2026-07-18 9:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: vmscan: propagate real error code from per-node proactive reclaim Ridong Chen
2026-07-18 9:52 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] mm: vmscan: drop unused gfp_mask parameter from __node_reclaim() Ridong Chen
2026-07-18 13:12 ` Barry Song
2026-07-18 9:52 ` Ridong Chen [this message]
2026-07-18 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] mm/mglru: fix anon-only reclaim evicting file pages when swappiness=max Barry Song
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