[PATCH for -mm] bailing out check first

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Thu Dec 11 2008 - 03:06:08 EST


Hi

This patch intent to fix trivial problem of rvr bailing out patch.
Is this useful?



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Subject: [PATCH for -mm] bailing out check first

current reclaim bailing out logic has a bit inefficiency.

example, if system has 4 node and reclaim logic can get enough memory from first node,
current logic works as following.

1. reclaim node-1 and success reclaim enough memory.
then, bailing out happend.
2. shrink_zones() call shrink_zone(node-2) and scan 32 page on each lru list.
after that, shrink_zone stop node-2 reclaim by bailing out logic.
3. shrink_zones() call shrink_zone(node-3) ...
4. shrink_zones() call shrink_zone(node-4) ...

step 2-4 are unnecessary.
it can be removed.


Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 19 ++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Index: b/mm/vmscan.c
===================================================================
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1452,15 +1452,6 @@ static void shrink_zone(int priority, st

while (nr[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] || nr[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] ||
nr[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE]) {
- for_each_evictable_lru(l) {
- if (nr[l]) {
- nr_to_scan = min(nr[l], swap_cluster_max);
- nr[l] -= nr_to_scan;
-
- nr_reclaimed += shrink_list(l, nr_to_scan,
- zone, sc, priority);
- }
- }
/*
* On large memory systems, scan >> priority can become
* really large. This is fine for the starting priority;
@@ -1472,6 +1463,16 @@ static void shrink_zone(int priority, st
if (nr_reclaimed > swap_cluster_max &&
priority < DEF_PRIORITY && !current_is_kswapd())
break;
+
+ for_each_evictable_lru(l) {
+ if (nr[l]) {
+ nr_to_scan = min(nr[l], swap_cluster_max);
+ nr[l] -= nr_to_scan;
+
+ nr_reclaimed += shrink_list(l, nr_to_scan,
+ zone, sc, priority);
+ }
+ }
}

sc->nr_reclaimed = nr_reclaimed;


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