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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



  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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