Re: [PATCH 2/4] vmscan: get_scan_ratio cleanup

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Tue Dec 29 2009 - 02:37:28 EST


* KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2009-12-28 16:48:06]:

> The get_scan_ratio() should have all scan-ratio related calculations.
> Thus, this patch move some calculation into get_scan_ratio.
>
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/vmscan.c | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
> 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 2bbee91..640486b 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -1501,6 +1501,13 @@ static void get_scan_ratio(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc,
> unsigned long ap, fp;
> struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = get_reclaim_stat(zone, sc);
>
> + /* If we have no swap space, do not bother scanning anon pages. */
> + if (!sc->may_swap || (nr_swap_pages <= 0)) {
> + percent[0] = 0;
> + percent[1] = 100;
> + return;
> + }
> +


> anon = zone_nr_lru_pages(zone, sc, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON) +
> zone_nr_lru_pages(zone, sc, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON);
> file = zone_nr_lru_pages(zone, sc, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE) +
> @@ -1598,22 +1605,20 @@ static void shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone,
> unsigned long nr_reclaimed = sc->nr_reclaimed;
> unsigned long nr_to_reclaim = sc->nr_to_reclaim;
> struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = get_reclaim_stat(zone, sc);
> - int noswap = 0;
>
> - /* If we have no swap space, do not bother scanning anon pages. */
> - if (!sc->may_swap || (nr_swap_pages <= 0)) {
> - noswap = 1;
> - percent[0] = 0;
> - percent[1] = 100;
> - } else
> - get_scan_ratio(zone, sc, percent);
> + get_scan_ratio(zone, sc, percent);

Where do we set noswap? Is percent[0] == 0 used to indicate noswap =
1?

>
> for_each_evictable_lru(l) {
> int file = is_file_lru(l);
> unsigned long scan;
>
> + if (percent[file] == 0) {
> + nr[l] = 0;
> + continue;
> + }
> +

Is this really needed? Won't nr_scan_try_batch handle it correctly?

> scan = zone_nr_lru_pages(zone, sc, l);
> - if (priority || noswap) {
> + if (priority) {
> scan >>= priority;
> scan = (scan * percent[file]) / 100;
> }

--
Balbir
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