[PATCH v3 12/32] shrinker: add node awareness

Glauber Costa glommer at parallels.com
Mon Apr 8 14:00:39 UTC 2013


From: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>

Pass the node of the current zone being reclaimed to shrink_slab(),
allowing the shrinker control nodemask to be set appropriately for
node aware shrinkers.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
---
 fs/drop_caches.c         |  1 +
 include/linux/shrinker.h |  3 +++
 mm/memory-failure.c      |  2 ++
 mm/vmscan.c              | 12 +++++++++---
 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/drop_caches.c b/fs/drop_caches.c
index c00e055..9fd702f 100644
--- a/fs/drop_caches.c
+++ b/fs/drop_caches.c
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ static void drop_slab(void)
 		.gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
 	};
 
+	nodes_setall(shrink.nodes_to_scan);
 	do {
 		nr_objects = shrink_slab(&shrink, 1000, 1000);
 	} while (nr_objects > 10);
diff --git a/include/linux/shrinker.h b/include/linux/shrinker.h
index 4f59615..e71286f 100644
--- a/include/linux/shrinker.h
+++ b/include/linux/shrinker.h
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ struct shrink_control {
 
 	/* How many slab objects shrinker() should scan and try to reclaim */
 	long nr_to_scan;
+
+	/* shrink from these nodes */
+	nodemask_t nodes_to_scan;
 };
 
 /*
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index df0694c..857377e 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -248,10 +248,12 @@ void shake_page(struct page *p, int access)
 	 */
 	if (access) {
 		int nr;
+		int nid = page_to_nid(p);
 		do {
 			struct shrink_control shrink = {
 				.gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
 			};
+			node_set(nid, shrink.nodes_to_scan);
 
 			nr = shrink_slab(&shrink, 1000, 1000);
 			if (page_count(p) == 1)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 64b0157..6926e09 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2191,15 +2191,20 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
 		 */
 		if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
 			unsigned long lru_pages = 0;
+
+			nodes_clear(shrink->nodes_to_scan);
 			for_each_zone_zonelist(zone, z, zonelist,
 					gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask)) {
 				if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL))
 					continue;
 
 				lru_pages += zone_reclaimable_pages(zone);
+				node_set(zone_to_nid(zone),
+					 shrink->nodes_to_scan);
 			}
 
 			shrink_slab(shrink, sc->nr_scanned, lru_pages);
+
 			if (reclaim_state) {
 				sc->nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab;
 				reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0;
@@ -2778,6 +2783,8 @@ loop_again:
 				shrink_zone(zone, &sc);
 
 				reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0;
+				nodes_clear(shrink.nodes_to_scan);
+				node_set(zone_to_nid(zone), shrink.nodes_to_scan);
 				nr_slab = shrink_slab(&shrink, sc.nr_scanned, lru_pages);
 				sc.nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab;
 				total_scanned += sc.nr_scanned;
@@ -3364,10 +3371,9 @@ static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
 		 * number of slab pages and shake the slab until it is reduced
 		 * by the same nr_pages that we used for reclaiming unmapped
 		 * pages.
-		 *
-		 * Note that shrink_slab will free memory on all zones and may
-		 * take a long time.
 		 */
+		nodes_clear(shrink.nodes_to_scan);
+		node_set(zone_to_nid(zone), shrink.nodes_to_scan);
 		for (;;) {
 			unsigned long lru_pages = zone_reclaimable_pages(zone);
 
-- 
1.8.1.4



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