From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>, Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>,
Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
Meta kernel team <kernel-team@meta.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] memcg: remove mem_cgroup_shrink_node()
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:24:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <an1_WBpFCiYL2Flr@tiehlicka> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260811203203.3456029-4-shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
On Tue 11-08-26 13:31:57, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> Its only caller was soft limit reclaim, which is gone.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Thanks!
> ---
> mm/internal.h | 4 ----
> mm/vmscan.c | 41 -----------------------------------------
> 2 files changed, 45 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
> index 678ce8d03515..b2315bdb7350 100644
> --- a/mm/internal.h
> +++ b/mm/internal.h
> @@ -85,10 +85,6 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> gfp_t gfp_mask,
> unsigned int reclaim_options,
> int *swappiness);
> -unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> - gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
> - pg_data_t *pgdat,
> - unsigned long *nr_scanned);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> extern int sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio;
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 032b14793d91..790b50c78a2e 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -6795,47 +6795,6 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order,
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
>
> -/* Only used by soft limit reclaim. Do not reuse for anything else. */
> -unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> - gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
> - pg_data_t *pgdat,
> - unsigned long *nr_scanned)
> -{
> - struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat);
> - struct scan_control sc = {
> - .nr_to_reclaim = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
> - .target_mem_cgroup = memcg,
> - .may_writepage = 1,
> - .may_unmap = 1,
> - .reclaim_idx = MAX_NR_ZONES - 1,
> - .may_swap = !noswap,
> - };
> -
> - WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->reclaim_state);
> -
> - sc.gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) |
> - (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
> -
> - trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_begin(sc.gfp_mask,
> - sc.order,
> - memcg);
> -
> - /*
> - * NOTE: Although we can get the priority field, using it
> - * here is not a good idea, since it limits the pages we can scan.
> - * if we don't reclaim here, the shrink_node from balance_pgdat
> - * will pick up pages from other mem cgroup's as well. We hack
> - * the priority and make it zero.
> - */
> - shrink_lruvec(lruvec, &sc);
> -
> - trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_end(sc.nr_reclaimed, memcg);
> -
> - *nr_scanned = sc.nr_scanned;
> -
> - return sc.nr_reclaimed;
> -}
> -
> unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> unsigned long nr_pages,
> gfp_t gfp_mask,
> --
> 2.53.0-Meta
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-13 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-11 20:31 [PATCH for-7.4 0/9] memcg: remove the v1 soft limit Shakeel Butt
2026-08-11 20:31 ` [PATCH 1/9] memcg: make the v1 soft limit knob inert Shakeel Butt
2026-08-12 22:50 ` Andrew Morton
2026-08-12 23:40 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-08-13 8:22 ` Michal Hocko
2026-08-11 20:31 ` [PATCH 2/9] memcg: remove v1 soft limit reclaim Shakeel Butt
2026-08-13 8:24 ` Michal Hocko
2026-08-11 20:31 ` [PATCH 3/9] memcg: remove mem_cgroup_shrink_node() Shakeel Butt
2026-08-13 8:24 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2026-08-11 20:31 ` [PATCH 4/9] memcg: remove the soft limit reclaim tracepoints Shakeel Butt
2026-08-13 8:25 ` Michal Hocko
2026-08-11 20:31 ` [PATCH 5/9] memcg: remove the soft limit rbtree Shakeel Butt
2026-08-13 8:25 ` Michal Hocko
2026-08-11 20:32 ` [PATCH 6/9] memcg: remove lru_gen_soft_reclaim() Shakeel Butt
2026-08-13 8:26 ` Michal Hocko
2026-08-11 20:32 ` [PATCH 7/9] memcg: remove the per-node soft limit tree fields Shakeel Butt
2026-08-13 8:27 ` Michal Hocko
2026-08-11 20:32 ` [PATCH 8/9] memcg: remove mem_cgroup->soft_limit Shakeel Butt
2026-08-13 8:27 ` Michal Hocko
2026-08-11 20:32 ` [PATCH 9/9] memcg: simplify v1 event ratelimiting Shakeel Butt
2026-08-13 8:28 ` Michal Hocko
2026-08-13 9:27 ` [PATCH for-7.4 0/9] memcg: remove the v1 soft limit Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
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