memcg: skip scanning active lists based on individual size

Reclaim decides to skip scanning an active list when the corresponding
inactive list is above a certain size in comparison to leave the assumed
working set alone while there are still enough reclaim candidates around.

The memcg implementation of comparing those lists instead reports whether
the whole memcg is low on the requested type of inactive pages,
considering all nodes and zones.

This can lead to an oversized active list not being scanned because of the
state of the other lists in the memcg, as well as an active list being
scanned while its corresponding inactive list has enough pages.

Not only is this wrong, it's also a scalability hazard, because the global
memory state over all nodes and zones has to be gathered for each memcg
and zone scanned.

Make these calculations purely based on the size of the two LRU lists
that are actually affected by the outcome of the decision.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <>

diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 05206aac59652cbc4a95fa8cb6e05581f26d0e09..b87068a1a09ef84ece916a4a722ebf70e921d1c6 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -106,8 +106,10 @@ extern void mem_cgroup_end_migration(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 /*
  * For memory reclaim.
  */
-int mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
-int mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
+int mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+                                   struct zone *zone);
+int mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+                                   struct zone *zone);
 int mem_cgroup_select_victim_node(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
 unsigned long mem_cgroup_zone_nr_lru_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
                                        int nid, int zid, unsigned int lrumask);
@@ -295,13 +297,13 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_disabled(void)
 }
 
 static inline int
-mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct zone *zone)
 {
        return 1;
 }
 
 static inline int
-mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct zone *zone)
 {
        return 1;
 }

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 4a8a2488b595626e266b0cc4a93f905116b470e4..60c2bd04ee63c054c6009cbc65a6d15b3ab4fb00 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1105,15 +1105,19 @@ int task_in_mem_cgroup(struct task_struct *task, const struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
        return ret;
 }
 
-static int calc_inactive_ratio(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned long *present_pages)
+int mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct zone *zone)
 {
-       unsigned long active;
+       unsigned long inactive_ratio;
+       int nid = zone_to_nid(zone);
+       int zid = zone_idx(zone);
        unsigned long inactive;
+       unsigned long active;
        unsigned long gb;
-       unsigned long inactive_ratio;
 
-       inactive = mem_cgroup_nr_lru_pages(memcg, BIT(LRU_INACTIVE_ANON));
-       active = mem_cgroup_nr_lru_pages(memcg, BIT(LRU_ACTIVE_ANON));
+       inactive = mem_cgroup_zone_nr_lru_pages(memcg, nid, zid,
+                                               BIT(LRU_INACTIVE_ANON));
+       active = mem_cgroup_zone_nr_lru_pages(memcg, nid, zid,
+                                             BIT(LRU_ACTIVE_ANON));
 
        gb = (inactive + active) >> (30 - PAGE_SHIFT);
        if (gb)
@@ -1121,39 +1125,20 @@ static int calc_inactive_ratio(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned long *present_
        else
                inactive_ratio = 1;
 
-       if (present_pages) {
-               present_pages[0] = inactive;
-               present_pages[1] = active;
-       }
-
-       return inactive_ratio;
+       return inactive * inactive_ratio < active;
 }
 
-int mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
-       unsigned long active;
-       unsigned long inactive;
-       unsigned long present_pages[2];
-       unsigned long inactive_ratio;
-
-       inactive_ratio = calc_inactive_ratio(memcg, present_pages);
-
-       inactive = present_pages[0];
-       active = present_pages[1];
-
-       if (inactive * inactive_ratio < active)
-               return 1;
-
-       return 0;
-}
-
-int mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+int mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct zone *zone)
 {
        unsigned long active;
        unsigned long inactive;
+       int zid = zone_idx(zone);
+       int nid = zone_to_nid(zone);
 
-       inactive = mem_cgroup_nr_lru_pages(memcg, BIT(LRU_INACTIVE_FILE));
-       active = mem_cgroup_nr_lru_pages(memcg, BIT(LRU_ACTIVE_FILE));
+       inactive = mem_cgroup_zone_nr_lru_pages(memcg, nid, zid,
+                                               BIT(LRU_INACTIVE_FILE));
+       active = mem_cgroup_zone_nr_lru_pages(memcg, nid, zid,
+                                             BIT(LRU_ACTIVE_FILE));
 
        return (active > inactive);
 }
@@ -4193,8 +4178,6 @@ static int mem_control_stat_show(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft,
        }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
-       cb->fill(cb, "inactive_ratio", calc_inactive_ratio(mem_cont, NULL));
-
        {
                int nid, zid;
                struct mem_cgroup_per_zone *mz;

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 13818fabef6790714865c753a660b98bfe106d84..a4d83eff113cc645b4a6fa159efd7e39a2833316 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1749,7 +1749,7 @@ static int inactive_anon_is_low(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
        if (scanning_global_lru(sc))
                low = inactive_anon_is_low_global(zone);
        else
-               low = mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(sc->mem_cgroup);
+               low = mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(sc->mem_cgroup, zone);
        return low;
 }
 #else
@@ -1792,7 +1792,7 @@ static int inactive_file_is_low(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
        if (scanning_global_lru(sc))
                low = inactive_file_is_low_global(zone);
        else
-               low = mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(sc->mem_cgroup);
+               low = mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(sc->mem_cgroup, zone);
        return low;
 }