[PATCH v2 02/22] memcg: fix page_referencies cgroup filter on globalreclaim

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Date: Mon Feb 20 2012 - 12:22:46 EST


Global memory reclaimer should't skip referencies for any pages,
even if they are shared between different cgroups.

This patch adds scan_control->current_mem_cgroup, which points to currently
shrinking sub-cgroup in hierarchy, at global reclaim it always NULL.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index ee4d87a..4bb23ef 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -109,6 +109,12 @@ struct scan_control {
struct mem_cgroup *target_mem_cgroup;

/*
+ * Currently reclaiming memory cgroup in hierarchy,
+ * NULL for global reclaim.
+ */
+ struct mem_cgroup *current_mem_cgroup;
+
+ /*
* Nodemask of nodes allowed by the caller. If NULL, all nodes
* are scanned.
*/
@@ -701,13 +707,13 @@ enum page_references {
};

static enum page_references page_check_references(struct page *page,
- struct mem_cgroup_zone *mz,
struct scan_control *sc)
{
int referenced_ptes, referenced_page;
unsigned long vm_flags;

- referenced_ptes = page_referenced(page, 1, mz->mem_cgroup, &vm_flags);
+ referenced_ptes = page_referenced(page, 1,
+ sc->current_mem_cgroup, &vm_flags);
referenced_page = TestClearPageReferenced(page);

/* Lumpy reclaim - ignore references */
@@ -828,7 +834,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
}
}

- references = page_check_references(page, mz, sc);
+ references = page_check_references(page, sc);
switch (references) {
case PAGEREF_ACTIVATE:
goto activate_locked;
@@ -1735,7 +1741,7 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
continue;
}

- if (page_referenced(page, 0, mz->mem_cgroup, &vm_flags)) {
+ if (page_referenced(page, 0, sc->current_mem_cgroup, &vm_flags)) {
nr_rotated += hpage_nr_pages(page);
/*
* Identify referenced, file-backed active pages and
@@ -2159,6 +2165,9 @@ static void shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone,
.zone = zone,
};

+ if (!global_reclaim(sc))
+ sc->current_mem_cgroup = memcg;
+
shrink_mem_cgroup_zone(priority, &mz, sc);
/*
* Limit reclaim has historically picked one memcg and
@@ -2478,6 +2487,7 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
.may_swap = !noswap,
.order = 0,
.target_mem_cgroup = memcg,
+ .current_mem_cgroup = memcg,
};
struct mem_cgroup_zone mz = {
.mem_cgroup = memcg,

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