From: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:46:54 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: The nr_force_scan[] tuple holds the effective scan numbers for anon and
X-Git-Tag: next-20110909~1^2~83
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=744152774655323dcbf99acf206118b409df6066;p=karo-tx-linux.git

The nr_force_scan[] tuple holds the effective scan numbers for anon and
file pages in case the situation called for a forced scan and the
regularly calculated scan numbers turned out zero.

However, the effective scan number can always be assumed to be
SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX right before the division into anon and file.  The
numerators and denominator are properly set up for all cases, be it force
scan for just file, just anon, or both, to do the right thing.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 1e826ea9ffcd..4d69f9f6b2c3 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1831,12 +1831,19 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc,
 	enum lru_list l;
 	int noswap = 0;
 	bool force_scan = false;
-	unsigned long nr_force_scan[2];
 
-	/* kswapd does zone balancing and needs to scan this zone */
+	/*
+	 * If the zone or memcg is small, nr[l] can be 0.  This
+	 * results in no scanning on this priority and a potential
+	 * priority drop.  Global direct reclaim can go to the next
+	 * zone and tends to have no problems. Global kswapd is for
+	 * zone balancing and it needs to scan a minimum amount. When
+	 * reclaiming for a memcg, a priority drop can cause high
+	 * latencies, so it's better to scan a minimum amount there as
+	 * well.
+	 */
 	if (scanning_global_lru(sc) && current_is_kswapd())
 		force_scan = true;
-	/* memcg may have small limit and need to avoid priority drop */
 	if (!scanning_global_lru(sc))
 		force_scan = true;
 
@@ -1846,8 +1853,6 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc,
 		fraction[0] = 0;
 		fraction[1] = 1;
 		denominator = 1;
-		nr_force_scan[0] = 0;
-		nr_force_scan[1] = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
@@ -1864,8 +1869,6 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc,
 			fraction[0] = 1;
 			fraction[1] = 0;
 			denominator = 1;
-			nr_force_scan[0] = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
-			nr_force_scan[1] = 0;
 			goto out;
 		}
 	}
@@ -1914,11 +1917,6 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc,
 	fraction[0] = ap;
 	fraction[1] = fp;
 	denominator = ap + fp + 1;
-	if (force_scan) {
-		unsigned long scan = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
-		nr_force_scan[0] = div64_u64(scan * ap, denominator);
-		nr_force_scan[1] = div64_u64(scan * fp, denominator);
-	}
 out:
 	for_each_evictable_lru(l) {
 		int file = is_file_lru(l);
@@ -1927,20 +1925,10 @@ out:
 		scan = zone_nr_lru_pages(zone, sc, l);
 		if (priority || noswap) {
 			scan >>= priority;
+			if (!scan && force_scan)
+				scan = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
 			scan = div64_u64(scan * fraction[file], denominator);
 		}
-
-		/*
-		 * If zone is small or memcg is small, nr[l] can be 0.
-		 * This results no-scan on this priority and priority drop down.
-		 * For global direct reclaim, it can visit next zone and tend
-		 * not to have problems. For global kswapd, it's for zone
-		 * balancing and it need to scan a small amounts. When using
-		 * memcg, priority drop can cause big latency. So, it's better
-		 * to scan small amount. See may_noscan above.
-		 */
-		if (!scan && force_scan)
-			scan = nr_force_scan[file];
 		nr[l] = scan;
 	}
 }