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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>2016-07-28 15:45:31 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-07-28 16:07:41 -0700
commit599d0c954f91d0689c9bb421b5bc04ea02437a41 (patch)
treee863ce685841e494bcb63e458739e0939ac684f6 /include/linux/backing-dev.h
parenta52633d8e9c35832f1409dc5fa166019048a3f1f (diff)
mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node
This moves the LRU lists from the zone to the node and related data such as counters, tracing, congestion tracking and writeback tracking. Unfortunately, due to reclaim and compaction retry logic, it is necessary to account for the number of LRU pages on both zone and node logic. Most reclaim logic is based on the node counters but the retry logic uses the zone counters which do not distinguish inactive and active sizes. It would be possible to leave the LRU counters on a per-zone basis but it's a heavier calculation across multiple cache lines that is much more frequent than the retry checks. Other than the LRU counters, this is mostly a mechanical patch but note that it introduces a number of anomalies. For example, the scans are per-zone but using per-node counters. We also mark a node as congested when a zone is congested. This causes weird problems that are fixed later but is easier to review. In the event that there is excessive overhead on 32-bit systems due to the nodes being on LRU then there are two potential solutions 1. Long-term isolation of highmem pages when reclaim is lowmem When pages are skipped, they are immediately added back onto the LRU list. If lowmem reclaim persisted for long periods of time, the same highmem pages get continually scanned. The idea would be that lowmem keeps those pages on a separate list until a reclaim for highmem pages arrives that splices the highmem pages back onto the LRU. It potentially could be implemented similar to the UNEVICTABLE list. That would reduce the skip rate with the potential corner case is that highmem pages have to be scanned and reclaimed to free lowmem slab pages. 2. Linear scan lowmem pages if the initial LRU shrink fails This will break LRU ordering but may be preferable and faster during memory pressure than skipping LRU pages. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-4-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
index c82794f20110..491a91717788 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ static inline int wb_congested(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int cong_bits)
}
long congestion_wait(int sync, long timeout);
-long wait_iff_congested(struct zone *zone, int sync, long timeout);
+long wait_iff_congested(struct pglist_data *pgdat, int sync, long timeout);
int pdflush_proc_obsolete(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);