Re: [PATCH 05/34] mm, vmscan: begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 07/08/2016 11:34 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> This patch makes reclaim decisions on a per-node basis.  A reclaimer knows
> what zone is required by the allocation request and skips pages from
> higher zones.  In many cases this will be ok because it's a GFP_HIGHMEM
> request of some description.  On 64-bit, ZONE_DMA32 requests will cause
> some problems but 32-bit devices on 64-bit platforms are increasingly
> rare.  Historically it would have been a major problem on 32-bit with big
> Highmem:Lowmem ratios but such configurations are also now rare and even
> where they exist, they are not encouraged.  If it really becomes a
> problem, it'll manifest as very low reclaim efficiencies.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I think my previous complaints are fixed.

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

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> @@ -2553,7 +2572,7 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  	unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed;
>  	unsigned long nr_soft_scanned;
>  	gfp_t orig_mask;
> -	enum zone_type requested_highidx = gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask);
> +	enum zone_type classzone_idx;
>
>  	/*
>  	 * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine exceeds the maximum
> @@ -2561,17 +2580,23 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc)
>  	 * highmem pages could be pinning lowmem pages storing buffer_heads
>  	 */
>  	orig_mask = sc->gfp_mask;
> -	if (buffer_heads_over_limit)
> +	if (buffer_heads_over_limit) {
>  		sc->gfp_mask |= __GFP_HIGHMEM;
> +		sc->reclaim_idx = classzone_idx = gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask);

Setting classzone_idx seems pointless here as it will be overwritten in 
the for loop. Unless that changes with some later patch. Anyway it 
doesn't hurt anything.