Re: [PATCH 03/27] mm, vmstat: Add infrastructure for per-node vmstats

Johannes Weiner
2016-02-23T18:13:25Z

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 03:04:26PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> VM statistic counters for reclaim decisions are zone-based. If the kernel
> is to reclaim on a per-node basis then we need to track per-node statistics
> but there is no infrastructure for that. The most notable change is that
> the old node_page_state is renamed to sum_zone_node_page_state. The new
> node_page_state takes a pglist_data and uses per-node stats but none exist
> yet. There is some renaming such as vm_stat to vm_zone_stat and the addition
> of vm_node_stat and the renaming of mod_state to mod_zone_state. Otherwise,
> this is mostly a mechanical patch with no functional change. There is a
> lot of similarity between the node and zone helpers which is unfortunate
> but there was no obvious way of reusing the code and maintaining type safety.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>

Hopefully we can eventually ditch /proc/zoneinfo in favor of a
/proc/nodeinfo and get rid of the per-zone stats accounting.

In general, this patch looks good to me.

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

Only one thing I noticed:

> @@ -349,12 +349,14 @@ static unsigned long count_shadow_nodes(struct shrinker *shrinker,
> shadow_nodes = list_lru_shrink_count(&workingset_shadow_nodes, sc);
> local_irq_enable();
>
> - if (memcg_kmem_enabled())
> + if (memcg_kmem_enabled()) {
> pages = mem_cgroup_node_nr_lru_pages(sc->memcg, sc->nid,
> LRU_ALL_FILE);
> - else
> - pages = node_page_state(sc->nid, NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
> - node_page_state(sc->nid, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
> + } else {
> + pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(sc->nid);
> + pages = node_page_state(pgdat, NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
> + node_page_state(pgdat, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
> + }

That should also be sum_zone_node_page_state, right? These are not
valid node items (yet).