1. 17 12月, 2014 3 次提交
  2. 14 12月, 2014 1 次提交
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      mm: vmscan: invoke slab shrinkers from shrink_zone() · 6b4f7799
      Johannes Weiner 提交于
      The slab shrinkers are currently invoked from the zonelist walkers in
      kswapd, direct reclaim, and zone reclaim, all of which roughly gauge the
      eligible LRU pages and assemble a nodemask to pass to NUMA-aware
      shrinkers, which then again have to walk over the nodemask.  This is
      redundant code, extra runtime work, and fairly inaccurate when it comes to
      the estimation of actually scannable LRU pages.  The code duplication will
      only get worse when making the shrinkers cgroup-aware and requiring them
      to have out-of-band cgroup hierarchy walks as well.
      
      Instead, invoke the shrinkers from shrink_zone(), which is where all
      reclaimers end up, to avoid this duplication.
      
      Take the count for eligible LRU pages out of get_scan_count(), which
      considers many more factors than just the availability of swap space, like
      zone_reclaimable_pages() currently does.  Accumulate the number over all
      visited lruvecs to get the per-zone value.
      
      Some nodes have multiple zones due to memory addressing restrictions.  To
      avoid putting too much pressure on the shrinkers, only invoke them once
      for each such node, using the class zone of the allocation as the pivot
      zone.
      
      For now, this integrates the slab shrinking better into the reclaim logic
      and gets rid of duplicative invocations from kswapd, direct reclaim, and
      zone reclaim.  It also prepares for cgroup-awareness, allowing
      memcg-capable shrinkers to be added at the lruvec level without much
      duplication of both code and runtime work.
      
      This changes kswapd behavior, which used to invoke the shrinkers for each
      zone, but with scan ratios gathered from the entire node, resulting in
      meaningless pressure quantities on multi-zone nodes.
      
      Zone reclaim behavior also changes.  It used to shrink slabs until the
      same amount of pages were shrunk as were reclaimed from the LRUs.  Now it
      merely invokes the shrinkers once with the zone's scan ratio, which makes
      the shrinkers go easier on caches that implement aging and would prefer
      feeding back pressure from recently used slab objects to unused LRU pages.
      
      [vdavydov@parallels.com: assure class zone is populated]
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
      Signed-off-by: NVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6b4f7799
  3. 05 12月, 2014 3 次提交
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