[patch 1/4] mm: vmscan: remove remains of kswapd-managed zone->all_unreclaimable

[patch 1/4] mm: vmscan: remove remains of kswapd-managed zone->all_unreclaimable

[Johannes Weiner]

shrink_zones() has a special branch to skip the all_unreclaimable()
check during hibernation, because a frozen kswapd can't mark a zone
unreclaimable.

But ever since 6e543d5780e3 ("mm: vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages()
livelock"), determining a zone to be unreclaimable is done by directly
looking at its scan history and no longer relies on kswapd setting the
per-zone flag.

Remove this branch and let shrink_zones() check the reclaimability of
the target zones regardless of hibernation state.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 0f16ffe8eb67..19b5b8016209 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2534,14 +2534,6 @@ out:
 	if (sc->nr_reclaimed)
 		return sc->nr_reclaimed;
 
-	/*
-	 * As hibernation is going on, kswapd is freezed so that it can't mark
-	 * the zone into all_unreclaimable. Thus bypassing all_unreclaimable
-	 * check.
-	 */
-	if (oom_killer_disabled)
-		return 0;
-
 	/* Aborted reclaim to try compaction? don't OOM, then */
 	if (aborted_reclaim)
 		return 1;
-- 
2.0.0

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[patch 2/4] mm: vmscan: rework compaction-ready signaling in direct reclaim

[Johannes Weiner]

Page reclaim for a higher-order page runs until compaction is ready,
then aborts and signals this situation through the return value of
shrink_zones().  This is an oddly specific signal to encode in the
return value of shrink_zones(), though, and can be quite confusing.

Introduce sc->compaction_ready and signal the compactability of the
zones out-of-band to free up the return value of shrink_zones() for
actual zone reclaimability.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 19b5b8016209..ed1efb84c542 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ struct scan_control {
 	/* Number of pages freed so far during a call to shrink_zones() */
 	unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
 
+	/* One of the zones is ready for compaction */
+	int compaction_ready;
+
 	/* How many pages shrink_list() should reclaim */
 	unsigned long nr_to_reclaim;
 
@@ -2292,15 +2295,11 @@ static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
 }
 
 /* Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request */
-static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
+static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order)
 {
 	unsigned long balance_gap, watermark;
 	bool watermark_ok;
 
-	/* Do not consider compaction for orders reclaim is meant to satisfy */
-	if (sc->order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
-		return false;
-
 	/*
 	 * Compaction takes time to run and there are potentially other
 	 * callers using the pages just freed. Continue reclaiming until
@@ -2309,18 +2308,18 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
 	 */
 	balance_gap = min(low_wmark_pages(zone), DIV_ROUND_UP(
 			zone->managed_pages, KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO));
-	watermark = high_wmark_pages(zone) + balance_gap + (2UL << sc->order);
+	watermark = high_wmark_pages(zone) + balance_gap + (2UL << order);
 	watermark_ok = zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, 0, watermark, 0, 0);
 
 	/*
 	 * If compaction is deferred, reclaim up to a point where
 	 * compaction will have a chance of success when re-enabled
 	 */
-	if (compaction_deferred(zone, sc->order))
+	if (compaction_deferred(zone, order))
 		return watermark_ok;
 
 	/* If compaction is not ready to start, keep reclaiming */
-	if (!compaction_suitable(zone, sc->order))
+	if (!compaction_suitable(zone, order))
 		return false;
 
 	return watermark_ok;
@@ -2341,20 +2340,14 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
  *
  * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
  * scan then give up on it.
- *
- * This function returns true if a zone is being reclaimed for a costly
- * high-order allocation and compaction is ready to begin. This indicates to
- * the caller that it should consider retrying the allocation instead of
- * further reclaim.
  */
-static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
+static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
 {
 	struct zoneref *z;
 	struct zone *zone;
 	unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed;
 	unsigned long nr_soft_scanned;
 	unsigned long lru_pages = 0;
-	bool aborted_reclaim = false;
 	struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;
 	gfp_t orig_mask;
 	struct shrink_control shrink = {
@@ -2391,22 +2384,24 @@ static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
 			if (sc->priority != DEF_PRIORITY &&
 			    !zone_reclaimable(zone))
 				continue;	/* Let kswapd poll it */
-			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION)) {
-				/*
-				 * If we already have plenty of memory free for
-				 * compaction in this zone, don't free any more.
-				 * Even though compaction is invoked for any
-				 * non-zero order, only frequent costly order
-				 * reclamation is disruptive enough to become a
-				 * noticeable problem, like transparent huge
-				 * page allocations.
-				 */
-				if ((zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= requested_highidx)
-				    && compaction_ready(zone, sc)) {
-					aborted_reclaim = true;
-					continue;
-				}
+
+			/*
+			 * If we already have plenty of memory free
+			 * for compaction in this zone, don't free any
+			 * more.  Even though compaction is invoked
+			 * for any non-zero order, only frequent
+			 * costly order reclamation is disruptive
+			 * enough to become a noticeable problem, like
+			 * transparent huge page allocations.
+			 */
+			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) &&
+			    sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&
+			    zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= requested_highidx &&
+			    compaction_ready(zone, sc->order)) {
+				sc->compaction_ready = true;
+				continue;
 			}
+
 			/*
 			 * This steals pages from memory cgroups over softlimit
 			 * and returns the number of reclaimed pages and
@@ -2444,8 +2439,6 @@ static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
 	 * promoted it to __GFP_HIGHMEM.
 	 */
 	sc->gfp_mask = orig_mask;
-
-	return aborted_reclaim;
 }
 
 /* All zones in zonelist are unreclaimable? */
@@ -2489,7 +2482,6 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
 {
 	unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
 	unsigned long writeback_threshold;
-	bool aborted_reclaim;
 
 	delayacct_freepages_start();
 
@@ -2500,12 +2492,15 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
 		vmpressure_prio(sc->gfp_mask, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
 				sc->priority);
 		sc->nr_scanned = 0;
-		aborted_reclaim = shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
+		shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
 
 		total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
 		if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim)
 			goto out;
 
+		if (sc->compaction_ready)
+			goto out;
+
 		/*
 		 * If we're getting trouble reclaiming, start doing
 		 * writepage even in laptop mode.
@@ -2526,7 +2521,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
 						WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES);
 			sc->may_writepage = 1;
 		}
-	} while (--sc->priority >= 0 && !aborted_reclaim);
+	} while (--sc->priority >= 0);
 
 out:
 	delayacct_freepages_end();
@@ -2535,7 +2530,7 @@ out:
 		return sc->nr_reclaimed;
 
 	/* Aborted reclaim to try compaction? don't OOM, then */
-	if (aborted_reclaim)
+	if (sc->compaction_ready)
 		return 1;
 
 	/* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
-- 
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Re: [patch 2/4] mm: vmscan: rework compaction-ready signaling in direct reclaim

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 06/20/2014 06:33 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Page reclaim for a higher-order page runs until compaction is ready,
> then aborts and signals this situation through the return value of
> shrink_zones().  This is an oddly specific signal to encode in the
> return value of shrink_zones(), though, and can be quite confusing.
> 
> Introduce sc->compaction_ready and signal the compactability of the
> zones out-of-band to free up the return value of shrink_zones() for
> actual zone reclaimability.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

(with a nitpick below)

> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 19b5b8016209..ed1efb84c542 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ struct scan_control {
>  	/* Number of pages freed so far during a call to shrink_zones() */
>  	unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
>  
> +	/* One of the zones is ready for compaction */
> +	int compaction_ready;
> +
>  	/* How many pages shrink_list() should reclaim */
>  	unsigned long nr_to_reclaim;
>  
> @@ -2292,15 +2295,11 @@ static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
>  }
>  
>  /* Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request */
> -static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
> +static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order)
>  {
>  	unsigned long balance_gap, watermark;
>  	bool watermark_ok;
>  
> -	/* Do not consider compaction for orders reclaim is meant to satisfy */
> -	if (sc->order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
> -		return false;
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * Compaction takes time to run and there are potentially other
>  	 * callers using the pages just freed. Continue reclaiming until
> @@ -2309,18 +2308,18 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
>  	 */
>  	balance_gap = min(low_wmark_pages(zone), DIV_ROUND_UP(
>  			zone->managed_pages, KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO));
> -	watermark = high_wmark_pages(zone) + balance_gap + (2UL << sc->order);
> +	watermark = high_wmark_pages(zone) + balance_gap + (2UL << order);
>  	watermark_ok = zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, 0, watermark, 0, 0);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * If compaction is deferred, reclaim up to a point where
>  	 * compaction will have a chance of success when re-enabled
>  	 */
> -	if (compaction_deferred(zone, sc->order))
> +	if (compaction_deferred(zone, order))
>  		return watermark_ok;
>  
>  	/* If compaction is not ready to start, keep reclaiming */
> -	if (!compaction_suitable(zone, sc->order))
> +	if (!compaction_suitable(zone, order))
>  		return false;
>  
>  	return watermark_ok;
> @@ -2341,20 +2340,14 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
>   *
>   * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
>   * scan then give up on it.
> - *
> - * This function returns true if a zone is being reclaimed for a costly
> - * high-order allocation and compaction is ready to begin. This indicates to
> - * the caller that it should consider retrying the allocation instead of
> - * further reclaim.
>   */
> -static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
> +static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  {
>  	struct zoneref *z;
>  	struct zone *zone;
>  	unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed;
>  	unsigned long nr_soft_scanned;
>  	unsigned long lru_pages = 0;
> -	bool aborted_reclaim = false;
>  	struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;
>  	gfp_t orig_mask;
>  	struct shrink_control shrink = {
> @@ -2391,22 +2384,24 @@ static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  			if (sc->priority != DEF_PRIORITY &&
>  			    !zone_reclaimable(zone))
>  				continue;	/* Let kswapd poll it */
> -			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION)) {
> -				/*
> -				 * If we already have plenty of memory free for
> -				 * compaction in this zone, don't free any more.
> -				 * Even though compaction is invoked for any
> -				 * non-zero order, only frequent costly order
> -				 * reclamation is disruptive enough to become a
> -				 * noticeable problem, like transparent huge
> -				 * page allocations.
> -				 */
> -				if ((zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= requested_highidx)
> -				    && compaction_ready(zone, sc)) {
> -					aborted_reclaim = true;
> -					continue;
> -				}
> +
> +			/*
> +			 * If we already have plenty of memory free
> +			 * for compaction in this zone, don't free any
> +			 * more.  Even though compaction is invoked
> +			 * for any non-zero order, only frequent
> +			 * costly order reclamation is disruptive
> +			 * enough to become a noticeable problem, like
> +			 * transparent huge page allocations.
> +			 */

You moved this comment block left, yet you further shortened the individual lines, despite
there is now more space to prolong them.

> +			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) &&
> +			    sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&
> +			    zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= requested_highidx &&
> +			    compaction_ready(zone, sc->order)) {
> +				sc->compaction_ready = true;
> +				continue;
>  			}
> +
>  			/*
>  			 * This steals pages from memory cgroups over softlimit
>  			 * and returns the number of reclaimed pages and
> @@ -2444,8 +2439,6 @@ static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  	 * promoted it to __GFP_HIGHMEM.
>  	 */
>  	sc->gfp_mask = orig_mask;
> -
> -	return aborted_reclaim;
>  }
>  
>  /* All zones in zonelist are unreclaimable? */
> @@ -2489,7 +2482,6 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  {
>  	unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
>  	unsigned long writeback_threshold;
> -	bool aborted_reclaim;
>  
>  	delayacct_freepages_start();
>  
> @@ -2500,12 +2492,15 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  		vmpressure_prio(sc->gfp_mask, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
>  				sc->priority);
>  		sc->nr_scanned = 0;
> -		aborted_reclaim = shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
> +		shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
>  
>  		total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
>  		if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim)
>  			goto out;
>  
> +		if (sc->compaction_ready)
> +			goto out;
> +
>  		/*
>  		 * If we're getting trouble reclaiming, start doing
>  		 * writepage even in laptop mode.
> @@ -2526,7 +2521,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  						WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES);
>  			sc->may_writepage = 1;
>  		}
> -	} while (--sc->priority >= 0 && !aborted_reclaim);
> +	} while (--sc->priority >= 0);
>  
>  out:
>  	delayacct_freepages_end();
> @@ -2535,7 +2530,7 @@ out:
>  		return sc->nr_reclaimed;
>  
>  	/* Aborted reclaim to try compaction? don't OOM, then */
> -	if (aborted_reclaim)
> +	if (sc->compaction_ready)
>  		return 1;
>  
>  	/* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
> 

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Re: [patch 2/4] mm: vmscan: rework compaction-ready signaling in direct reclaim

[Johannes Weiner]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 06:56:03PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 06/20/2014 06:33 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > Page reclaim for a higher-order page runs until compaction is ready,
> > then aborts and signals this situation through the return value of
> > shrink_zones().  This is an oddly specific signal to encode in the
> > return value of shrink_zones(), though, and can be quite confusing.
> > 
> > Introduce sc->compaction_ready and signal the compactability of the
> > zones out-of-band to free up the return value of shrink_zones() for
> > actual zone reclaimability.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Thanks, Vlastimil!

> > @@ -2391,22 +2384,24 @@ static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
> >  			if (sc->priority != DEF_PRIORITY &&
> >  			    !zone_reclaimable(zone))
> >  				continue;	/* Let kswapd poll it */
> > -			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION)) {
> > -				/*
> > -				 * If we already have plenty of memory free for
> > -				 * compaction in this zone, don't free any more.
> > -				 * Even though compaction is invoked for any
> > -				 * non-zero order, only frequent costly order
> > -				 * reclamation is disruptive enough to become a
> > -				 * noticeable problem, like transparent huge
> > -				 * page allocations.
> > -				 */
> > -				if ((zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= requested_highidx)
> > -				    && compaction_ready(zone, sc)) {
> > -					aborted_reclaim = true;
> > -					continue;
> > -				}
> > +
> > +			/*
> > +			 * If we already have plenty of memory free
> > +			 * for compaction in this zone, don't free any
> > +			 * more.  Even though compaction is invoked
> > +			 * for any non-zero order, only frequent
> > +			 * costly order reclamation is disruptive
> > +			 * enough to become a noticeable problem, like
> > +			 * transparent huge page allocations.
> > +			 */
> 
> You moved this comment block left, yet you further shortened the individual lines, despite
> there is now more space to prolong them.

This is a result of using emacs' auto-fill all the time when writing
comments, I have to watch my reflexes while moving stuff around :-)

Updated patch:

---

Re: [patch 2/4] mm: vmscan: rework compaction-ready signaling in direct reclaim

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 20-06-14 16:24:49, Johannes Weiner wrote:
[...]
> From cd48b73fdca9e23aa21f65e9af1f850dbac5ab8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 12:53:59 -0400
> Subject: [patch] mm: vmscan: rework compaction-ready signaling in direct
>  reclaim
> 
> Page reclaim for a higher-order page runs until compaction is ready,
> then aborts and signals this situation through the return value of
> shrink_zones().  This is an oddly specific signal to encode in the
> return value of shrink_zones(), though, and can be quite confusing.
> 
> Introduce sc->compaction_ready and signal the compactability of the
> zones out-of-band to free up the return value of shrink_zones() for
> actual zone reclaimability.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Very nice. It will help me to get rid off additional hacks for the
min_limit for memcg. Thanks!

One question below

[...]
> @@ -2500,12 +2492,15 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  		vmpressure_prio(sc->gfp_mask, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
>  				sc->priority);
>  		sc->nr_scanned = 0;
> -		aborted_reclaim = shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
> +		shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
>  
>  		total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
>  		if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim)
>  			goto out;
>  
> +		if (sc->compaction_ready)
> +			goto out;
> +
>  		/*
>  		 * If we're getting trouble reclaiming, start doing
>  		 * writepage even in laptop mode.
> @@ -2526,7 +2521,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  						WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES);
>  			sc->may_writepage = 1;
>  		}
> -	} while (--sc->priority >= 0 && !aborted_reclaim);
> +	} while (--sc->priority >= 0);
>  
>  out:
>  	delayacct_freepages_end();

It is not entirely clear to me why we do not need to check and wake up
flusher threads anymore?

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Re: [patch 2/4] mm: vmscan: rework compaction-ready signaling in direct reclaim

[Minchan Kim]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:33:48PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Page reclaim for a higher-order page runs until compaction is ready,
> then aborts and signals this situation through the return value of
> shrink_zones().  This is an oddly specific signal to encode in the
> return value of shrink_zones(), though, and can be quite confusing.
> 
> Introduce sc->compaction_ready and signal the compactability of the
> zones out-of-band to free up the return value of shrink_zones() for
> actual zone reclaimability.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

Below just one nitpick.

> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 19b5b8016209..ed1efb84c542 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ struct scan_control {
>  	/* Number of pages freed so far during a call to shrink_zones() */
>  	unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
>  
> +	/* One of the zones is ready for compaction */
> +	int compaction_ready;
> +
>  	/* How many pages shrink_list() should reclaim */
>  	unsigned long nr_to_reclaim;
>  
> @@ -2292,15 +2295,11 @@ static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
>  }
>  
>  /* Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request */
> -static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
> +static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order)
>  {
>  	unsigned long balance_gap, watermark;
>  	bool watermark_ok;
>  
> -	/* Do not consider compaction for orders reclaim is meant to satisfy */
> -	if (sc->order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
> -		return false;
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * Compaction takes time to run and there are potentially other
>  	 * callers using the pages just freed. Continue reclaiming until
> @@ -2309,18 +2308,18 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
>  	 */
>  	balance_gap = min(low_wmark_pages(zone), DIV_ROUND_UP(
>  			zone->managed_pages, KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO));
> -	watermark = high_wmark_pages(zone) + balance_gap + (2UL << sc->order);
> +	watermark = high_wmark_pages(zone) + balance_gap + (2UL << order);
>  	watermark_ok = zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, 0, watermark, 0, 0);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * If compaction is deferred, reclaim up to a point where
>  	 * compaction will have a chance of success when re-enabled
>  	 */
> -	if (compaction_deferred(zone, sc->order))
> +	if (compaction_deferred(zone, order))
>  		return watermark_ok;
>  
>  	/* If compaction is not ready to start, keep reclaiming */
> -	if (!compaction_suitable(zone, sc->order))
> +	if (!compaction_suitable(zone, order))
>  		return false;
>  
>  	return watermark_ok;
> @@ -2341,20 +2340,14 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
>   *
>   * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
>   * scan then give up on it.
> - *
> - * This function returns true if a zone is being reclaimed for a costly
> - * high-order allocation and compaction is ready to begin. This indicates to
> - * the caller that it should consider retrying the allocation instead of
> - * further reclaim.
>   */
> -static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
> +static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  {
>  	struct zoneref *z;
>  	struct zone *zone;
>  	unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed;
>  	unsigned long nr_soft_scanned;
>  	unsigned long lru_pages = 0;
> -	bool aborted_reclaim = false;

>  	struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;
>  	gfp_t orig_mask;
>  	struct shrink_control shrink = {
> @@ -2391,22 +2384,24 @@ static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  			if (sc->priority != DEF_PRIORITY &&
>  			    !zone_reclaimable(zone))
>  				continue;	/* Let kswapd poll it */
> -			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION)) {
> -				/*
> -				 * If we already have plenty of memory free for
> -				 * compaction in this zone, don't free any more.
> -				 * Even though compaction is invoked for any
> -				 * non-zero order, only frequent costly order
> -				 * reclamation is disruptive enough to become a
> -				 * noticeable problem, like transparent huge
> -				 * page allocations.
> -				 */
> -				if ((zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= requested_highidx)
> -				    && compaction_ready(zone, sc)) {
> -					aborted_reclaim = true;
> -					continue;
> -				}
> +
> +			/*
> +			 * If we already have plenty of memory free
> +			 * for compaction in this zone, don't free any
> +			 * more.  Even though compaction is invoked
> +			 * for any non-zero order, only frequent
> +			 * costly order reclamation is disruptive
> +			 * enough to become a noticeable problem, like
> +			 * transparent huge page allocations.
> +			 */
> +			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) &&
> +			    sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&

You are deleting comment sc->order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER which was
in compaction_ready. At least, that comment was useful for me to guess
the intention. So if you have strong reason to remove that, I'd like to
remain it.


> +			    zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= requested_highidx &&
> +			    compaction_ready(zone, sc->order)) {
> +				sc->compaction_ready = true;
> +				continue;
>  			}
> +
>  			/*
>  			 * This steals pages from memory cgroups over softlimit
>  			 * and returns the number of reclaimed pages and
> @@ -2444,8 +2439,6 @@ static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  	 * promoted it to __GFP_HIGHMEM.
>  	 */
>  	sc->gfp_mask = orig_mask;
> -
> -	return aborted_reclaim;
>  }
>  
>  /* All zones in zonelist are unreclaimable? */
> @@ -2489,7 +2482,6 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  {
>  	unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
>  	unsigned long writeback_threshold;
> -	bool aborted_reclaim;
>  
>  	delayacct_freepages_start();
>  
> @@ -2500,12 +2492,15 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  		vmpressure_prio(sc->gfp_mask, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
>  				sc->priority);
>  		sc->nr_scanned = 0;
> -		aborted_reclaim = shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
> +		shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
>  
>  		total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
>  		if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim)
>  			goto out;
>  
> +		if (sc->compaction_ready)
> +			goto out;
> +
>  		/*
>  		 * If we're getting trouble reclaiming, start doing
>  		 * writepage even in laptop mode.
> @@ -2526,7 +2521,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  						WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES);
>  			sc->may_writepage = 1;
>  		}
> -	} while (--sc->priority >= 0 && !aborted_reclaim);
> +	} while (--sc->priority >= 0);
>  
>  out:
>  	delayacct_freepages_end();
> @@ -2535,7 +2530,7 @@ out:
>  		return sc->nr_reclaimed;
>  
>  	/* Aborted reclaim to try compaction? don't OOM, then */
> -	if (aborted_reclaim)
> +	if (sc->compaction_ready)
>  		return 1;
>  
>  	/* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
> -- 
> 2.0.0
> 
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Re: [patch 2/4] mm: vmscan: rework compaction-ready signaling in direct reclaim

[Johannes Weiner]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 03:36:37PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:33:48PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > Page reclaim for a higher-order page runs until compaction is ready,
> > then aborts and signals this situation through the return value of
> > shrink_zones().  This is an oddly specific signal to encode in the
> > return value of shrink_zones(), though, and can be quite confusing.
> > 
> > Introduce sc->compaction_ready and signal the compactability of the
> > zones out-of-band to free up the return value of shrink_zones() for
> > actual zone reclaimability.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

Thanks!

> > @@ -2292,15 +2295,11 @@ static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
> >  }
> >  
> >  /* Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request */
> > -static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
> > +static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order)
> >  {
> >  	unsigned long balance_gap, watermark;
> >  	bool watermark_ok;
> >  
> > -	/* Do not consider compaction for orders reclaim is meant to satisfy */
> > -	if (sc->order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
> > -		return false;
> > -
> >  	/*
> >  	 * Compaction takes time to run and there are potentially other
> >  	 * callers using the pages just freed. Continue reclaiming until

> > @@ -2391,22 +2384,24 @@ static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
> >  			if (sc->priority != DEF_PRIORITY &&
> >  			    !zone_reclaimable(zone))
> >  				continue;	/* Let kswapd poll it */
> > -			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION)) {
> > -				/*
> > -				 * If we already have plenty of memory free for
> > -				 * compaction in this zone, don't free any more.
> > -				 * Even though compaction is invoked for any
> > -				 * non-zero order, only frequent costly order
> > -				 * reclamation is disruptive enough to become a
> > -				 * noticeable problem, like transparent huge
> > -				 * page allocations.
> > -				 */
> > -				if ((zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= requested_highidx)
> > -				    && compaction_ready(zone, sc)) {
> > -					aborted_reclaim = true;
> > -					continue;
> > -				}
> > +
> > +			/*
> > +			 * If we already have plenty of memory free
> > +			 * for compaction in this zone, don't free any
> > +			 * more.  Even though compaction is invoked
> > +			 * for any non-zero order, only frequent
> > +			 * costly order reclamation is disruptive
> > +			 * enough to become a noticeable problem, like
> > +			 * transparent huge page allocations.
> > +			 */
> > +			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) &&
> > +			    sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&
> 
> You are deleting comment sc->order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER which was
> in compaction_ready. At least, that comment was useful for me to guess
> the intention. So if you have strong reason to remove that, I'd like to
> remain it.

There are two separate explanations for aborting reclaim early for
costly orders:

1. /* Do not consider compaction for orders reclaim is meant to satisfy */

2. /*
    * Even though compaction is invoked
    * for any non-zero order, only frequent
    * costly order reclamation is disruptive
    * enough to become a noticeable problem, like
    * transparent huge page allocations.
    */

I thought it makes sense to pick one and go with that, so I went with
2. and moved the order check out there as well.

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Re: [patch 2/4] mm: vmscan: rework compaction-ready signaling in direct reclaim

[Mel Gorman]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:33:48PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Page reclaim for a higher-order page runs until compaction is ready,
> then aborts and signals this situation through the return value of
> shrink_zones().  This is an oddly specific signal to encode in the
> return value of shrink_zones(), though, and can be quite confusing.
> 
> Introduce sc->compaction_ready and signal the compactability of the
> zones out-of-band to free up the return value of shrink_zones() for
> actual zone reclaimability.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 19b5b8016209..ed1efb84c542 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ struct scan_control {
>  	/* Number of pages freed so far during a call to shrink_zones() */
>  	unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
>  
> +	/* One of the zones is ready for compaction */
> +	int compaction_ready;
> +
>  	/* How many pages shrink_list() should reclaim */
>  	unsigned long nr_to_reclaim;
>  

You are not the criminal here but scan_control is larger than it needs
to be and the stack usage of reclaim has reared its head again.

Add a preparation patch that convert sc->may* and sc->hibernation_mode
to bool and moves them towards the end of the struct. Then add
compaction_ready as a bool.

> @@ -2292,15 +2295,11 @@ static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
>  }
>  
>  /* Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request */
> -static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
> +static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order)
>  {

Why did you remove the use of sc->order? In this patch there is only one
called of compaction_ready and it looks like

                     if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) &&
                         sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&
                         zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= requested_highidx &&
                         compaction_ready(zone, sc->order)) {

So it's unclear why you changed the signature.


>  	unsigned long balance_gap, watermark;
>  	bool watermark_ok;
>  
> -	/* Do not consider compaction for orders reclaim is meant to satisfy */
> -	if (sc->order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
> -		return false;
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * Compaction takes time to run and there are potentially other
>  	 * callers using the pages just freed. Continue reclaiming until
> @@ -2309,18 +2308,18 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
>  	 */
>  	balance_gap = min(low_wmark_pages(zone), DIV_ROUND_UP(
>  			zone->managed_pages, KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO));
> -	watermark = high_wmark_pages(zone) + balance_gap + (2UL << sc->order);
> +	watermark = high_wmark_pages(zone) + balance_gap + (2UL << order);
>  	watermark_ok = zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, 0, watermark, 0, 0);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * If compaction is deferred, reclaim up to a point where
>  	 * compaction will have a chance of success when re-enabled
>  	 */
> -	if (compaction_deferred(zone, sc->order))
> +	if (compaction_deferred(zone, order))
>  		return watermark_ok;
>  
>  	/* If compaction is not ready to start, keep reclaiming */
> -	if (!compaction_suitable(zone, sc->order))
> +	if (!compaction_suitable(zone, order))
>  		return false;
>  
>  	return watermark_ok;
> @@ -2341,20 +2340,14 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
>   *
>   * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
>   * scan then give up on it.
> - *
> - * This function returns true if a zone is being reclaimed for a costly
> - * high-order allocation and compaction is ready to begin. This indicates to
> - * the caller that it should consider retrying the allocation instead of
> - * further reclaim.
>   */
> -static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
> +static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  {
>  	struct zoneref *z;
>  	struct zone *zone;
>  	unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed;
>  	unsigned long nr_soft_scanned;
>  	unsigned long lru_pages = 0;
> -	bool aborted_reclaim = false;
>  	struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;
>  	gfp_t orig_mask;
>  	struct shrink_control shrink = {
> @@ -2391,22 +2384,24 @@ static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  			if (sc->priority != DEF_PRIORITY &&
>  			    !zone_reclaimable(zone))
>  				continue;	/* Let kswapd poll it */
> -			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION)) {
> -				/*
> -				 * If we already have plenty of memory free for
> -				 * compaction in this zone, don't free any more.
> -				 * Even though compaction is invoked for any
> -				 * non-zero order, only frequent costly order
> -				 * reclamation is disruptive enough to become a
> -				 * noticeable problem, like transparent huge
> -				 * page allocations.
> -				 */
> -				if ((zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= requested_highidx)
> -				    && compaction_ready(zone, sc)) {
> -					aborted_reclaim = true;
> -					continue;
> -				}
> +
> +			/*
> +			 * If we already have plenty of memory free
> +			 * for compaction in this zone, don't free any
> +			 * more.  Even though compaction is invoked
> +			 * for any non-zero order, only frequent
> +			 * costly order reclamation is disruptive
> +			 * enough to become a noticeable problem, like
> +			 * transparent huge page allocations.
> +			 */
> +			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) &&
> +			    sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&
> +			    zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= requested_highidx &&
> +			    compaction_ready(zone, sc->order)) {
> +				sc->compaction_ready = true;
> +				continue;
>  			}
> +
>  			/*
>  			 * This steals pages from memory cgroups over softlimit
>  			 * and returns the number of reclaimed pages and
> @@ -2444,8 +2439,6 @@ static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  	 * promoted it to __GFP_HIGHMEM.
>  	 */
>  	sc->gfp_mask = orig_mask;
> -
> -	return aborted_reclaim;
>  }
>  
>  /* All zones in zonelist are unreclaimable? */
> @@ -2489,7 +2482,6 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  {
>  	unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
>  	unsigned long writeback_threshold;
> -	bool aborted_reclaim;
>  
>  	delayacct_freepages_start();
>  
> @@ -2500,12 +2492,15 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  		vmpressure_prio(sc->gfp_mask, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
>  				sc->priority);
>  		sc->nr_scanned = 0;
> -		aborted_reclaim = shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
> +		shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
>  
>  		total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
>  		if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim)
>  			goto out;
>  
> +		if (sc->compaction_ready)
> +			goto out;
> +

break?

Convert the other one to break as well. out label seems unnecessary in
this context.

>  		/*
>  		 * If we're getting trouble reclaiming, start doing
>  		 * writepage even in laptop mode.
> @@ -2526,7 +2521,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  						WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES);
>  			sc->may_writepage = 1;
>  		}
> -	} while (--sc->priority >= 0 && !aborted_reclaim);
> +	} while (--sc->priority >= 0);
>  
>  out:
>  	delayacct_freepages_end();
> @@ -2535,7 +2530,7 @@ out:
>  		return sc->nr_reclaimed;
>  
>  	/* Aborted reclaim to try compaction? don't OOM, then */
> -	if (aborted_reclaim)
> +	if (sc->compaction_ready)
>  		return 1;
>  
>  	/* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
> -- 
> 2.0.0
> 

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Re: [patch 2/4] mm: vmscan: rework compaction-ready signaling in direct reclaim

[Johannes Weiner]

Hi Mel,

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 02:07:05PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:33:48PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > Page reclaim for a higher-order page runs until compaction is ready,
> > then aborts and signals this situation through the return value of
> > shrink_zones().  This is an oddly specific signal to encode in the
> > return value of shrink_zones(), though, and can be quite confusing.
> > 
> > Introduce sc->compaction_ready and signal the compactability of the
> > zones out-of-band to free up the return value of shrink_zones() for
> > actual zone reclaimability.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> > ---
> >  mm/vmscan.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> > index 19b5b8016209..ed1efb84c542 100644
> > --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> > +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> > @@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ struct scan_control {
> >  	/* Number of pages freed so far during a call to shrink_zones() */
> >  	unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
> >  
> > +	/* One of the zones is ready for compaction */
> > +	int compaction_ready;
> > +
> >  	/* How many pages shrink_list() should reclaim */
> >  	unsigned long nr_to_reclaim;
> >  
> 
> You are not the criminal here but scan_control is larger than it needs
> to be and the stack usage of reclaim has reared its head again.
> 
> Add a preparation patch that convert sc->may* and sc->hibernation_mode
> to bool and moves them towards the end of the struct. Then add
> compaction_ready as a bool.

Good idea, I'll do that.

> > @@ -2292,15 +2295,11 @@ static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
> >  }
> >  
> >  /* Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request */
> > -static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
> > +static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order)
> > 
> >  {
> 
> Why did you remove the use of sc->order? In this patch there is only one
> called of compaction_ready and it looks like
> 
>                      if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) &&
>                          sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&
>                          zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= requested_highidx &&
>                          compaction_ready(zone, sc->order)) {
> 
> So it's unclear why you changed the signature.

Everything else in compaction_ready() is about internal compaction
requirements, like checking for free pages and deferred compaction,
whereas this order check is more of a reclaim policy rule according to
the comment in the caller:

			 ...
			 * Even though compaction is invoked for any
			 * non-zero order, only frequent costly order
			 * reclamation is disruptive enough to become a
			 * noticeable problem, like transparent huge
			 * page allocations.
			 */

But it's an unrelated in-the-area-anyway change, I can split it out -
or drop it entirely - if you prefer.

> > @@ -2500,12 +2492,15 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
> >  		vmpressure_prio(sc->gfp_mask, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
> >  				sc->priority);
> >  		sc->nr_scanned = 0;
> > -		aborted_reclaim = shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
> > +		shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
> >  
> >  		total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
> >  		if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim)
> >  			goto out;
> >  
> > +		if (sc->compaction_ready)
> > +			goto out;
> > +
> 
> break?
> 
> Convert the other one to break as well. out label seems unnecessary in
> this context.

Makes sense, I'll include this in v2.

Thanks!

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Re: [patch 2/4] mm: vmscan: rework compaction-ready signaling in direct reclaim

[Mel Gorman]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 01:20:56PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Hi Mel,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 02:07:05PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:33:48PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > > Page reclaim for a higher-order page runs until compaction is ready,
> > > then aborts and signals this situation through the return value of
> > > shrink_zones().  This is an oddly specific signal to encode in the
> > > return value of shrink_zones(), though, and can be quite confusing.
> > > 
> > > Introduce sc->compaction_ready and signal the compactability of the
> > > zones out-of-band to free up the return value of shrink_zones() for
> > > actual zone reclaimability.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> > > ---
> > >  mm/vmscan.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------
> > >  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> > > index 19b5b8016209..ed1efb84c542 100644
> > > --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> > > +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> > > @@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ struct scan_control {
> > >  	/* Number of pages freed so far during a call to shrink_zones() */
> > >  	unsigned long nr_reclaimed;
> > >  
> > > +	/* One of the zones is ready for compaction */
> > > +	int compaction_ready;
> > > +
> > >  	/* How many pages shrink_list() should reclaim */
> > >  	unsigned long nr_to_reclaim;
> > >  
> > 
> > You are not the criminal here but scan_control is larger than it needs
> > to be and the stack usage of reclaim has reared its head again.
> > 
> > Add a preparation patch that convert sc->may* and sc->hibernation_mode
> > to bool and moves them towards the end of the struct. Then add
> > compaction_ready as a bool.
> 
> Good idea, I'll do that.
> 

Thanks.

> > > @@ -2292,15 +2295,11 @@ static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
> > >  }
> > >  
> > >  /* Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request */
> > > -static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
> > > +static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order)
> > > 
> > >  {
> > 
> > Why did you remove the use of sc->order? In this patch there is only one
> > called of compaction_ready and it looks like
> > 
> >                      if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) &&
> >                          sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&
> >                          zonelist_zone_idx(z) <= requested_highidx &&
> >                          compaction_ready(zone, sc->order)) {
> > 
> > So it's unclear why you changed the signature.
> 
> Everything else in compaction_ready() is about internal compaction
> requirements, like checking for free pages and deferred compaction,
> whereas this order check is more of a reclaim policy rule according to
> the comment in the caller:
> 
> 			 ...
> 			 * Even though compaction is invoked for any
> 			 * non-zero order, only frequent costly order
> 			 * reclamation is disruptive enough to become a
> 			 * noticeable problem, like transparent huge
> 			 * page allocations.
> 			 */
> 
> But it's an unrelated in-the-area-anyway change, I can split it out -
> or drop it entirely - if you prefer.
> 

It's ok as-is. It just seemed unrelated and seemed to do nothing. I was
wondering if this was a rebasing artifact and some other change that
required it got lost along the way by accident.

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[patch 3/4] mm: vmscan: remove all_unreclaimable()

[Johannes Weiner]

Direct reclaim currently calls shrink_zones() to reclaim all members
of a zonelist, and if that wasn't successful it does another pass
through the same zonelist to check overall reclaimability.

Just check reclaimability in shrink_zones() directly and propagate the
result through the return value.  Then remove all_unreclaimable().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index ed1efb84c542..d0bc1a209746 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2244,9 +2244,10 @@ static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct zone *zone,
 	}
 }
 
-static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
+static unsigned long shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
 {
 	unsigned long nr_reclaimed, nr_scanned;
+	unsigned long zone_reclaimed = 0;
 
 	do {
 		struct mem_cgroup *root = sc->target_mem_cgroup;
@@ -2290,8 +2291,12 @@ static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
 			   sc->nr_scanned - nr_scanned,
 			   sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed);
 
+		zone_reclaimed += sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed;
+
 	} while (should_continue_reclaim(zone, sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed,
 					 sc->nr_scanned - nr_scanned, sc));
+
+	return zone_reclaimed;
 }
 
 /* Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request */
@@ -2340,8 +2345,10 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order)
  *
  * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
  * scan then give up on it.
+ *
+ * Returns whether the zones overall are reclaimable or not.
  */
-static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
+static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
 {
 	struct zoneref *z;
 	struct zone *zone;
@@ -2354,6 +2361,7 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
 		.gfp_mask = sc->gfp_mask,
 	};
 	enum zone_type requested_highidx = gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask);
+	bool all_unreclaimable = true;
 
 	/*
 	 * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine exceeds the maximum
@@ -2368,6 +2376,8 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
 
 	for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
 					gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) {
+		unsigned long zone_reclaimed = 0;
+
 		if (!populated_zone(zone))
 			continue;
 		/*
@@ -2414,10 +2424,15 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
 						&nr_soft_scanned);
 			sc->nr_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
 			sc->nr_scanned += nr_soft_scanned;
+			zone_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
 			/* need some check for avoid more shrink_zone() */
 		}
 
-		shrink_zone(zone, sc);
+		zone_reclaimed += shrink_zone(zone, sc);
+
+		if (zone_reclaimed ||
+		    (global_reclaim(sc) && zone_reclaimable(zone)))
+			all_unreclaimable = false;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -2439,26 +2454,8 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
 	 * promoted it to __GFP_HIGHMEM.
 	 */
 	sc->gfp_mask = orig_mask;
-}
 
-/* All zones in zonelist are unreclaimable? */
-static bool all_unreclaimable(struct zonelist *zonelist,
-		struct scan_control *sc)
-{
-	struct zoneref *z;
-	struct zone *zone;
-
-	for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
-			gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) {
-		if (!populated_zone(zone))
-			continue;
-		if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL))
-			continue;
-		if (zone_reclaimable(zone))
-			return false;
-	}
-
-	return true;
+	return !all_unreclaimable;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -2482,6 +2479,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
 {
 	unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
 	unsigned long writeback_threshold;
+	bool zones_reclaimable;
 
 	delayacct_freepages_start();
 
@@ -2492,7 +2490,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
 		vmpressure_prio(sc->gfp_mask, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
 				sc->priority);
 		sc->nr_scanned = 0;
-		shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
+		zones_reclaimable = shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
 
 		total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
 		if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim)
@@ -2533,8 +2531,8 @@ out:
 	if (sc->compaction_ready)
 		return 1;
 
-	/* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
-	if (global_reclaim(sc) && !all_unreclaimable(zonelist, sc))
+	/* Any of the zones still reclaimable?  Don't OOM. */
+	if (zones_reclaimable)
 		return 1;
 
 	return 0;
-- 
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Re: [patch 3/4] mm: vmscan: remove all_unreclaimable()

[Minchan Kim]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:33:49PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Direct reclaim currently calls shrink_zones() to reclaim all members
> of a zonelist, and if that wasn't successful it does another pass
> through the same zonelist to check overall reclaimability.
> 
> Just check reclaimability in shrink_zones() directly and propagate the
> result through the return value.  Then remove all_unreclaimable().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index ed1efb84c542..d0bc1a209746 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -2244,9 +2244,10 @@ static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct zone *zone,
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
> +static unsigned long shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
>  {
>  	unsigned long nr_reclaimed, nr_scanned;
> +	unsigned long zone_reclaimed = 0;
>  
>  	do {
>  		struct mem_cgroup *root = sc->target_mem_cgroup;
> @@ -2290,8 +2291,12 @@ static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
>  			   sc->nr_scanned - nr_scanned,
>  			   sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed);
>  
> +		zone_reclaimed += sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed;
> +
>  	} while (should_continue_reclaim(zone, sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed,
>  					 sc->nr_scanned - nr_scanned, sc));
> +
> +	return zone_reclaimed;
>  }
>  
>  /* Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request */
> @@ -2340,8 +2345,10 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order)
>   *
>   * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
>   * scan then give up on it.
> + *
> + * Returns whether the zones overall are reclaimable or not.
>   */
> -static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
> +static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  {
>  	struct zoneref *z;
>  	struct zone *zone;
> @@ -2354,6 +2361,7 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  		.gfp_mask = sc->gfp_mask,
>  	};
>  	enum zone_type requested_highidx = gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask);
> +	bool all_unreclaimable = true;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine exceeds the maximum
> @@ -2368,6 +2376,8 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  
>  	for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
>  					gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) {
> +		unsigned long zone_reclaimed = 0;
> +
>  		if (!populated_zone(zone))
>  			continue;
>  		/*
> @@ -2414,10 +2424,15 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  						&nr_soft_scanned);
>  			sc->nr_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
>  			sc->nr_scanned += nr_soft_scanned;
> +			zone_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
>  			/* need some check for avoid more shrink_zone() */
>  		}
>  
> -		shrink_zone(zone, sc);
> +		zone_reclaimed += shrink_zone(zone, sc);
> +
> +		if (zone_reclaimed ||
> +		    (global_reclaim(sc) && zone_reclaimable(zone)))
> +			all_unreclaimable = false;
>  	}
>  
>  	/*
> @@ -2439,26 +2454,8 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  	 * promoted it to __GFP_HIGHMEM.
>  	 */
>  	sc->gfp_mask = orig_mask;
> -}
>  
> -/* All zones in zonelist are unreclaimable? */
> -static bool all_unreclaimable(struct zonelist *zonelist,
> -		struct scan_control *sc)
> -{
> -	struct zoneref *z;
> -	struct zone *zone;
> -
> -	for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
> -			gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) {
> -		if (!populated_zone(zone))
> -			continue;
> -		if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL))
> -			continue;
> -		if (zone_reclaimable(zone))
> -			return false;
> -	}
> -
> -	return true;
> +	return !all_unreclaimable;
>  }
>  
>  /*
> @@ -2482,6 +2479,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  {
>  	unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
>  	unsigned long writeback_threshold;
> +	bool zones_reclaimable;
>  
>  	delayacct_freepages_start();
>  
> @@ -2492,7 +2490,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  		vmpressure_prio(sc->gfp_mask, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
>  				sc->priority);
>  		sc->nr_scanned = 0;
> -		shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
> +		zones_reclaimable = shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
>  
>  		total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
>  		if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim)
> @@ -2533,8 +2531,8 @@ out:
>  	if (sc->compaction_ready)
>  		return 1;
>  
> -	/* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
> -	if (global_reclaim(sc) && !all_unreclaimable(zonelist, sc))
> +	/* Any of the zones still reclaimable?  Don't OOM. */
> +	if (zones_reclaimable)
>  		return 1;
>  
>  	return 0;
> -- 
> 2.0.0
> 
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Re: [patch 3/4] mm: vmscan: remove all_unreclaimable()

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 20-06-14 12:33:49, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Direct reclaim currently calls shrink_zones() to reclaim all members
> of a zonelist, and if that wasn't successful it does another pass
> through the same zonelist to check overall reclaimability.
> 
> Just check reclaimability in shrink_zones() directly and propagate the
> result through the return value.  Then remove all_unreclaimable().

Heh, I was really looking for the return value and abuse it for the
memcg low/min reclaim purposes. I will find a way...

> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>

> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index ed1efb84c542..d0bc1a209746 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -2244,9 +2244,10 @@ static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct zone *zone,
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
> +static unsigned long shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
>  {
>  	unsigned long nr_reclaimed, nr_scanned;
> +	unsigned long zone_reclaimed = 0;
>  
>  	do {
>  		struct mem_cgroup *root = sc->target_mem_cgroup;
> @@ -2290,8 +2291,12 @@ static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
>  			   sc->nr_scanned - nr_scanned,
>  			   sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed);
>  
> +		zone_reclaimed += sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed;
> +
>  	} while (should_continue_reclaim(zone, sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed,
>  					 sc->nr_scanned - nr_scanned, sc));
> +
> +	return zone_reclaimed;
>  }
>  
>  /* Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request */
> @@ -2340,8 +2345,10 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order)
>   *
>   * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
>   * scan then give up on it.
> + *
> + * Returns whether the zones overall are reclaimable or not.
>   */
> -static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
> +static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  {
>  	struct zoneref *z;
>  	struct zone *zone;
> @@ -2354,6 +2361,7 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  		.gfp_mask = sc->gfp_mask,
>  	};
>  	enum zone_type requested_highidx = gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask);
> +	bool all_unreclaimable = true;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine exceeds the maximum
> @@ -2368,6 +2376,8 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  
>  	for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
>  					gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) {
> +		unsigned long zone_reclaimed = 0;
> +
>  		if (!populated_zone(zone))
>  			continue;
>  		/*
> @@ -2414,10 +2424,15 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  						&nr_soft_scanned);
>  			sc->nr_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
>  			sc->nr_scanned += nr_soft_scanned;
> +			zone_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
>  			/* need some check for avoid more shrink_zone() */
>  		}
>  
> -		shrink_zone(zone, sc);
> +		zone_reclaimed += shrink_zone(zone, sc);
> +
> +		if (zone_reclaimed ||
> +		    (global_reclaim(sc) && zone_reclaimable(zone)))
> +			all_unreclaimable = false;
>  	}
>  
>  	/*
> @@ -2439,26 +2454,8 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  	 * promoted it to __GFP_HIGHMEM.
>  	 */
>  	sc->gfp_mask = orig_mask;
> -}
>  
> -/* All zones in zonelist are unreclaimable? */
> -static bool all_unreclaimable(struct zonelist *zonelist,
> -		struct scan_control *sc)
> -{
> -	struct zoneref *z;
> -	struct zone *zone;
> -
> -	for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
> -			gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) {
> -		if (!populated_zone(zone))
> -			continue;
> -		if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL))
> -			continue;
> -		if (zone_reclaimable(zone))
> -			return false;
> -	}
> -
> -	return true;
> +	return !all_unreclaimable;
>  }
>  
>  /*
> @@ -2482,6 +2479,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  {
>  	unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
>  	unsigned long writeback_threshold;
> +	bool zones_reclaimable;
>  
>  	delayacct_freepages_start();
>  
> @@ -2492,7 +2490,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  		vmpressure_prio(sc->gfp_mask, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
>  				sc->priority);
>  		sc->nr_scanned = 0;
> -		shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
> +		zones_reclaimable = shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
>  
>  		total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
>  		if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim)
> @@ -2533,8 +2531,8 @@ out:
>  	if (sc->compaction_ready)
>  		return 1;
>  
> -	/* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
> -	if (global_reclaim(sc) && !all_unreclaimable(zonelist, sc))
> +	/* Any of the zones still reclaimable?  Don't OOM. */
> +	if (zones_reclaimable)
>  		return 1;
>  
>  	return 0;
> -- 
> 2.0.0
> 

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Re: [patch 3/4] mm: vmscan: remove all_unreclaimable()

[Mel Gorman]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:33:49PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Direct reclaim currently calls shrink_zones() to reclaim all members
> of a zonelist, and if that wasn't successful it does another pass
> through the same zonelist to check overall reclaimability.
> 
> Just check reclaimability in shrink_zones() directly and propagate the
> result through the return value.  Then remove all_unreclaimable().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index ed1efb84c542..d0bc1a209746 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -2244,9 +2244,10 @@ static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct zone *zone,
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
> +static unsigned long shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
>  {
>  	unsigned long nr_reclaimed, nr_scanned;
> +	unsigned long zone_reclaimed = 0;
>  
>  	do {
>  		struct mem_cgroup *root = sc->target_mem_cgroup;
> @@ -2290,8 +2291,12 @@ static void shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
>  			   sc->nr_scanned - nr_scanned,
>  			   sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed);
>  
> +		zone_reclaimed += sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed;
> +
>  	} while (should_continue_reclaim(zone, sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed,
>  					 sc->nr_scanned - nr_scanned, sc));
> +
> +	return zone_reclaimed;
>  }

You do not actually need a counter here because all that matters is that
a page got reclaimed. It could just as easily have been

bool zone_reclaimable = false;

...

if (sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed)
	zone_reclaimable = true;

...

return zone_reclaimable

so that zone[s]_reclaimable is always a boolean and not sometimes a boolean
and sometimes a counter.


>  
>  /* Returns true if compaction should go ahead for a high-order request */
> @@ -2340,8 +2345,10 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order)
>   *
>   * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
>   * scan then give up on it.
> + *
> + * Returns whether the zones overall are reclaimable or not.
>   */

Returns true if a zone was reclaimable

> -static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
> +static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  {
>  	struct zoneref *z;
>  	struct zone *zone;
> @@ -2354,6 +2361,7 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  		.gfp_mask = sc->gfp_mask,
>  	};
>  	enum zone_type requested_highidx = gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask);
> +	bool all_unreclaimable = true;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine exceeds the maximum
> @@ -2368,6 +2376,8 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  
>  	for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
>  					gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) {
> +		unsigned long zone_reclaimed = 0;
> +
>  		if (!populated_zone(zone))
>  			continue;
>  		/*
> @@ -2414,10 +2424,15 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  						&nr_soft_scanned);
>  			sc->nr_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
>  			sc->nr_scanned += nr_soft_scanned;
> +			zone_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
>  			/* need some check for avoid more shrink_zone() */
>  		}
>  
> -		shrink_zone(zone, sc);
> +		zone_reclaimed += shrink_zone(zone, sc);
> +
> +		if (zone_reclaimed ||
> +		    (global_reclaim(sc) && zone_reclaimable(zone)))
> +			all_unreclaimable = false;
>  	}
>  

This is where you don't need the counter as such. It could just as
easily have been

bool reclaimable = false;
....
if (shrink_zone(zone, sc))
	reclaimable = true;

if (!reclaimable && global_reclaim(sc) && zone_reclaimable(zone))
	reclaimable = true;

return reclaimable;

It doesn't matter as such, it's just zone_reclaimed is implemented as a
counter but not used as one.

>  	/*
> @@ -2439,26 +2454,8 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  	 * promoted it to __GFP_HIGHMEM.
>  	 */
>  	sc->gfp_mask = orig_mask;
> -}
>  
> -/* All zones in zonelist are unreclaimable? */
> -static bool all_unreclaimable(struct zonelist *zonelist,
> -		struct scan_control *sc)
> -{
> -	struct zoneref *z;
> -	struct zone *zone;
> -
> -	for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
> -			gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) {
> -		if (!populated_zone(zone))
> -			continue;
> -		if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL))
> -			continue;
> -		if (zone_reclaimable(zone))
> -			return false;
> -	}
> -
> -	return true;
> +	return !all_unreclaimable;
>  }
>  
>  /*
> @@ -2482,6 +2479,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  {
>  	unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
>  	unsigned long writeback_threshold;
> +	bool zones_reclaimable;
>  
>  	delayacct_freepages_start();
>  
> @@ -2492,7 +2490,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  		vmpressure_prio(sc->gfp_mask, sc->target_mem_cgroup,
>  				sc->priority);
>  		sc->nr_scanned = 0;
> -		shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
> +		zones_reclaimable = shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
>  
>  		total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
>  		if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim)
> @@ -2533,8 +2531,8 @@ out:
>  	if (sc->compaction_ready)
>  		return 1;
>  
> -	/* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
> -	if (global_reclaim(sc) && !all_unreclaimable(zonelist, sc))
> +	/* Any of the zones still reclaimable?  Don't OOM. */
> +	if (zones_reclaimable)
>  		return 1;
>  
>  	return 0;
> -- 
> 2.0.0
> 

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[patch 4/4] mm: vmscan: move swappiness out of scan_control

[Johannes Weiner]

Swappiness is determined for each scanned memcg individually in
shrink_zone() and is not a parameter that applies throughout the
reclaim scan.  Move it out of struct scan_control to prevent
accidental use of a stale value.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 27 +++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index d0bc1a209746..757e2a8dbf58 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -89,9 +89,6 @@ struct scan_control {
 	/* Scan (total_size >> priority) pages at once */
 	int priority;
 
-	/* anon vs. file LRUs scanning "ratio" */
-	int swappiness;
-
 	/*
 	 * The memory cgroup that hit its limit and as a result is the
 	 * primary target of this reclaim invocation.
@@ -1868,8 +1865,8 @@ enum scan_balance {
  * nr[0] = anon inactive pages to scan; nr[1] = anon active pages to scan
  * nr[2] = file inactive pages to scan; nr[3] = file active pages to scan
  */
-static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
-			   unsigned long *nr)
+static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, int swappiness,
+			   struct scan_control *sc, unsigned long *nr)
 {
 	struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = &lruvec->reclaim_stat;
 	u64 fraction[2];
@@ -1912,7 +1909,7 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
 	 * using the memory controller's swap limit feature would be
 	 * too expensive.
 	 */
-	if (!global_reclaim(sc) && !sc->swappiness) {
+	if (!global_reclaim(sc) && !swappiness) {
 		scan_balance = SCAN_FILE;
 		goto out;
 	}
@@ -1922,7 +1919,7 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
 	 * system is close to OOM, scan both anon and file equally
 	 * (unless the swappiness setting disagrees with swapping).
 	 */
-	if (!sc->priority && sc->swappiness) {
+	if (!sc->priority && swappiness) {
 		scan_balance = SCAN_EQUAL;
 		goto out;
 	}
@@ -1965,7 +1962,7 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
 	 * With swappiness at 100, anonymous and file have the same priority.
 	 * This scanning priority is essentially the inverse of IO cost.
 	 */
-	anon_prio = sc->swappiness;
+	anon_prio = swappiness;
 	file_prio = 200 - anon_prio;
 
 	/*
@@ -2055,7 +2052,8 @@ out:
 /*
  * This is a basic per-zone page freer.  Used by both kswapd and direct reclaim.
  */
-static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
+static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, int swappiness,
+			  struct scan_control *sc)
 {
 	unsigned long nr[NR_LRU_LISTS];
 	unsigned long targets[NR_LRU_LISTS];
@@ -2066,7 +2064,7 @@ static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
 	struct blk_plug plug;
 	bool scan_adjusted;
 
-	get_scan_count(lruvec, sc, nr);
+	get_scan_count(lruvec, swappiness, sc, nr);
 
 	/* Record the original scan target for proportional adjustments later */
 	memcpy(targets, nr, sizeof(nr));
@@ -2263,11 +2261,12 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
 		memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(root, NULL, &reclaim);
 		do {
 			struct lruvec *lruvec;
+			int swappiness;
 
 			lruvec = mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone, memcg);
+			swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg);
 
-			sc->swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg);
-			shrink_lruvec(lruvec, sc);
+			shrink_lruvec(lruvec, swappiness, sc);
 
 			/*
 			 * Direct reclaim and kswapd have to scan all memory
@@ -2714,10 +2713,10 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 		.may_swap = !noswap,
 		.order = 0,
 		.priority = 0,
-		.swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg),
 		.target_mem_cgroup = memcg,
 	};
 	struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone, memcg);
+	int swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg);
 
 	sc.gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) |
 			(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
@@ -2733,7 +2732,7 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 	 * will pick up pages from other mem cgroup's as well. We hack
 	 * the priority and make it zero.
 	 */
-	shrink_lruvec(lruvec, &sc);
+	shrink_lruvec(lruvec, swappiness, &sc);
 
 	trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_end(sc.nr_reclaimed);
 
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Re: [patch 4/4] mm: vmscan: move swappiness out of scan_control

[Minchan Kim]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:33:50PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Swappiness is determined for each scanned memcg individually in
> shrink_zone() and is not a parameter that applies throughout the
> reclaim scan.  Move it out of struct scan_control to prevent
> accidental use of a stale value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

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Re: [patch 4/4] mm: vmscan: move swappiness out of scan_control

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 20-06-14 12:33:50, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Swappiness is determined for each scanned memcg individually in
> shrink_zone() and is not a parameter that applies throughout the
> reclaim scan.  Move it out of struct scan_control to prevent
> accidental use of a stale value.

Yes, putting it into scan_control was a quick&dirty temporal
solution.  I was thinking about something like lruvec_swappiness
(lruvec->mem_cgroup_per_zone->mem_cgroup) and stick it into
get_scan_count but what you have here is better because the swappiness
has memcg scope rather than lruvec.

> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>

> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 27 +++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index d0bc1a209746..757e2a8dbf58 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -89,9 +89,6 @@ struct scan_control {
>  	/* Scan (total_size >> priority) pages at once */
>  	int priority;
>  
> -	/* anon vs. file LRUs scanning "ratio" */
> -	int swappiness;
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * The memory cgroup that hit its limit and as a result is the
>  	 * primary target of this reclaim invocation.
> @@ -1868,8 +1865,8 @@ enum scan_balance {
>   * nr[0] = anon inactive pages to scan; nr[1] = anon active pages to scan
>   * nr[2] = file inactive pages to scan; nr[3] = file active pages to scan
>   */
> -static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
> -			   unsigned long *nr)
> +static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, int swappiness,
> +			   struct scan_control *sc, unsigned long *nr)
>  {
>  	struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = &lruvec->reclaim_stat;
>  	u64 fraction[2];
> @@ -1912,7 +1909,7 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
>  	 * using the memory controller's swap limit feature would be
>  	 * too expensive.
>  	 */
> -	if (!global_reclaim(sc) && !sc->swappiness) {
> +	if (!global_reclaim(sc) && !swappiness) {
>  		scan_balance = SCAN_FILE;
>  		goto out;
>  	}
> @@ -1922,7 +1919,7 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
>  	 * system is close to OOM, scan both anon and file equally
>  	 * (unless the swappiness setting disagrees with swapping).
>  	 */
> -	if (!sc->priority && sc->swappiness) {
> +	if (!sc->priority && swappiness) {
>  		scan_balance = SCAN_EQUAL;
>  		goto out;
>  	}
> @@ -1965,7 +1962,7 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
>  	 * With swappiness at 100, anonymous and file have the same priority.
>  	 * This scanning priority is essentially the inverse of IO cost.
>  	 */
> -	anon_prio = sc->swappiness;
> +	anon_prio = swappiness;
>  	file_prio = 200 - anon_prio;
>  
>  	/*
> @@ -2055,7 +2052,8 @@ out:
>  /*
>   * This is a basic per-zone page freer.  Used by both kswapd and direct reclaim.
>   */
> -static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
> +static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, int swappiness,
> +			  struct scan_control *sc)
>  {
>  	unsigned long nr[NR_LRU_LISTS];
>  	unsigned long targets[NR_LRU_LISTS];
> @@ -2066,7 +2064,7 @@ static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
>  	struct blk_plug plug;
>  	bool scan_adjusted;
>  
> -	get_scan_count(lruvec, sc, nr);
> +	get_scan_count(lruvec, swappiness, sc, nr);
>  
>  	/* Record the original scan target for proportional adjustments later */
>  	memcpy(targets, nr, sizeof(nr));
> @@ -2263,11 +2261,12 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
>  		memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(root, NULL, &reclaim);
>  		do {
>  			struct lruvec *lruvec;
> +			int swappiness;
>  
>  			lruvec = mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone, memcg);
> +			swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg);
>  
> -			sc->swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg);
> -			shrink_lruvec(lruvec, sc);
> +			shrink_lruvec(lruvec, swappiness, sc);
>  
>  			/*
>  			 * Direct reclaim and kswapd have to scan all memory
> @@ -2714,10 +2713,10 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>  		.may_swap = !noswap,
>  		.order = 0,
>  		.priority = 0,
> -		.swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg),
>  		.target_mem_cgroup = memcg,
>  	};
>  	struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(zone, memcg);
> +	int swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg);
>  
>  	sc.gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) |
>  			(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
> @@ -2733,7 +2732,7 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>  	 * will pick up pages from other mem cgroup's as well. We hack
>  	 * the priority and make it zero.
>  	 */
> -	shrink_lruvec(lruvec, &sc);
> +	shrink_lruvec(lruvec, swappiness, &sc);
>  
>  	trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_end(sc.nr_reclaimed);
>  
> -- 
> 2.0.0
> 

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Re: [patch 1/4] mm: vmscan: remove remains of kswapd-managed zone->all_unreclaimable

[Minchan Kim]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:33:47PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> shrink_zones() has a special branch to skip the all_unreclaimable()
> check during hibernation, because a frozen kswapd can't mark a zone
> unreclaimable.
> 
> But ever since 6e543d5780e3 ("mm: vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages()
> livelock"), determining a zone to be unreclaimable is done by directly
> looking at its scan history and no longer relies on kswapd setting the
> per-zone flag.
> 
> Remove this branch and let shrink_zones() check the reclaimability of
> the target zones regardless of hibernation state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

It would be not bad to Cced KOSAKI who was involved all_unreclaimable
series several time with me.

> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 8 --------
>  1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 0f16ffe8eb67..19b5b8016209 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -2534,14 +2534,6 @@ out:
>  	if (sc->nr_reclaimed)
>  		return sc->nr_reclaimed;
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * As hibernation is going on, kswapd is freezed so that it can't mark
> -	 * the zone into all_unreclaimable. Thus bypassing all_unreclaimable
> -	 * check.
> -	 */
> -	if (oom_killer_disabled)
> -		return 0;
> -
>  	/* Aborted reclaim to try compaction? don't OOM, then */
>  	if (aborted_reclaim)
>  		return 1;
> -- 
> 2.0.0
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RE: [patch 1/4] mm: vmscan: remove remains of kswapd-managed zone->all_unreclaimable

[Motohiro Kosaki]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Minchan Kim [mailto:minchan@kernel.org]
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 2:16 AM
> To: Johannes Weiner
> Cc: Andrew Morton; Mel Gorman; Rik van Riel; Michal Hocko; linux-mm@kvack.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Motohiro Kosaki JP
> Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] mm: vmscan: remove remains of kswapd-managed zone->all_unreclaimable
> 
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:33:47PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > shrink_zones() has a special branch to skip the all_unreclaimable()
> > check during hibernation, because a frozen kswapd can't mark a zone
> > unreclaimable.
> >
> > But ever since 6e543d5780e3 ("mm: vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages()
> > livelock"), determining a zone to be unreclaimable is done by directly
> > looking at its scan history and no longer relies on kswapd setting the
> > per-zone flag.
> >
> > Remove this branch and let shrink_zones() check the reclaimability of
> > the target zones regardless of hibernation state.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> 
> It would be not bad to Cced KOSAKI who was involved all_unreclaimable series several time with me.

Looks good to me.

KOSAKI Motohiro <Kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>

Re: [patch 1/4] mm: vmscan: remove remains of kswapd-managed zone->all_unreclaimable

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 20-06-14 12:33:47, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> shrink_zones() has a special branch to skip the all_unreclaimable()
> check during hibernation, because a frozen kswapd can't mark a zone
> unreclaimable.
> 
> But ever since 6e543d5780e3 ("mm: vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages()
> livelock"), determining a zone to be unreclaimable is done by directly
> looking at its scan history and no longer relies on kswapd setting the
> per-zone flag.
> 
> Remove this branch and let shrink_zones() check the reclaimability of
> the target zones regardless of hibernation state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

This code is really tricky :/

But the patch looks good to me.
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>

> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 8 --------
>  1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 0f16ffe8eb67..19b5b8016209 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -2534,14 +2534,6 @@ out:
>  	if (sc->nr_reclaimed)
>  		return sc->nr_reclaimed;
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * As hibernation is going on, kswapd is freezed so that it can't mark
> -	 * the zone into all_unreclaimable. Thus bypassing all_unreclaimable
> -	 * check.
> -	 */
> -	if (oom_killer_disabled)
> -		return 0;
> -
>  	/* Aborted reclaim to try compaction? don't OOM, then */
>  	if (aborted_reclaim)
>  		return 1;
> -- 
> 2.0.0
> 

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Re: [patch 1/4] mm: vmscan: remove remains of kswapd-managed zone->all_unreclaimable

[Mel Gorman]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:33:47PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> shrink_zones() has a special branch to skip the all_unreclaimable()
> check during hibernation, because a frozen kswapd can't mark a zone
> unreclaimable.
> 
> But ever since 6e543d5780e3 ("mm: vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages()
> livelock"), determining a zone to be unreclaimable is done by directly
> looking at its scan history and no longer relies on kswapd setting the
> per-zone flag.
> 
> Remove this branch and let shrink_zones() check the reclaimability of
> the target zones regardless of hibernation state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

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