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From: Ridong Chen <ridong.chen@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>, Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>,
	Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ridong.chen@linux.dev,
	Ridong Chen <chenridong@xiaomi.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mm: vmscan: fix node reclaim ignoring swappiness parameter
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:11:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260711091157.306070-3-ridong.chen@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260711091157.306070-1-ridong.chen@linux.dev>

From: Ridong Chen <chenridong@xiaomi.com>

sc_swappiness() had two separate definitions depending on
CONFIG_MEMCG. The !CONFIG_MEMCG variant simply returned
vm_swappiness, ignoring the proactive_swappiness value passed
through scan_control. This caused the swappiness parameter
written to /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/reclaim to have no
effect when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled.

Fix this by consolidating sc_swappiness() into a single definition
that checks sc->proactive_swappiness first, then falls back to
mem_cgroup_swappiness() which already handles both CONFIG_MEMCG
and !CONFIG_MEMCG.

Before fix (swappiness=max ignored, mostly file pages reclaimed):

    # cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
    60
    # cat /proc/vmstat | grep pgsteal
    pgsteal_kswapd 0
    pgsteal_direct 0
    pgsteal_khugepaged 0
    pgsteal_proactive 1840
    pgsteal_anon 25
    pgsteal_file 1815
    # echo "64M swappiness=max" > /sys/devices/system/node/node0/reclaim
    # cat /proc/vmstat | grep pgsteal
    pgsteal_kswapd 0
    pgsteal_direct 0
    pgsteal_khugepaged 0
    pgsteal_proactive 18013
    pgsteal_anon 337
    pgsteal_file 17676

After fix (swappiness=max honored, anon pages reclaimed as expected):

    # cat /proc/vmstat | grep pgsteal
    pgsteal_kswapd 0
    pgsteal_direct 0
    pgsteal_khugepaged 0
    pgsteal_proactive 0
    pgsteal_anon 0
    pgsteal_file 0
    # echo "64M swappiness=max" > /sys/devices/system/node/node0/reclaim
    # cat /proc/vmstat | grep pgsteal
    pgsteal_kswapd 0
    pgsteal_direct 0
    pgsteal_khugepaged 0
    pgsteal_proactive 16283
    pgsteal_anon 16283
    pgsteal_file 0

Fixes: 68cd9050d871 ("mm: add swappiness= arg to memory.reclaim")
Signed-off-by: Ridong Chen <chenridong@xiaomi.com>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 17 +++++++----------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 35c3bb15ae96..5271bd023c1d 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -198,6 +198,13 @@ struct scan_control {
  */
 int vm_swappiness = 60;
 
+static int sc_swappiness(struct scan_control *sc, struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+	if (sc->proactive && sc->proactive_swappiness)
+		return *sc->proactive_swappiness;
+	return mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg);
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
 
 /* Returns true for reclaim through cgroup limits or cgroup interfaces. */
@@ -239,12 +246,6 @@ static bool writeback_throttling_sane(struct scan_control *sc)
 	return false;
 }
 
-static int sc_swappiness(struct scan_control *sc, struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
-	if (sc->proactive && sc->proactive_swappiness)
-		return *sc->proactive_swappiness;
-	return mem_cgroup_swappiness(memcg);
-}
 #else
 static bool cgroup_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc)
 {
@@ -261,10 +262,6 @@ static bool writeback_throttling_sane(struct scan_control *sc)
 	return true;
 }
 
-static int sc_swappiness(struct scan_control *sc, struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
-	return READ_ONCE(vm_swappiness);
-}
 #endif
 
 static void set_task_reclaim_state(struct task_struct *task,
-- 
2.43.0


      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-11  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-11  9:11 [PATCH 0/2] mm: fix node reclaim swappiness handling Ridong Chen
2026-07-11  9:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] memcg: move mem_cgroup_swappiness to memcontrol.h Ridong Chen
2026-07-11  9:11 ` Ridong Chen [this message]

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