From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932687AbdCKNvz (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Mar 2017 08:51:55 -0500 Received: from SMTPBG11.QQ.COM ([183.60.61.232]:51896 "EHLO smtpbg11.qq.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753168AbdCKNvu (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Mar 2017 08:51:50 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 378 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2017 08:51:40 EST X-QQ-Spam: true X-QQ-mid: esmtp23t1489239404t9yq6udoj X-QQ-SSF: 01000000000000202G100300000000V From: Yisheng Xie To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org, mgorman@suse.de, vbabka@suse.cz, mhocko@suse.com, riel@redhat.com, shakeelb@google.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xieyisheng1@huawei.com, hanjunguo@huawei.com, qiuxishi@huawei.com Subject: [PATCH v2 RFC] mm/vmscan: more restrictive condition for retry in do_try_to_free_pages Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 21:36:42 +0800 Message-Id: <1489239402-957-1-git-send-email-ysxie@foxmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 X-QQ-SENDSIZE: 520 Feedback-ID: esmtp:foxmail.com:bgweb:bgweb9 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Yisheng Xie When we enter do_try_to_free_pages, the may_thrash is always clear, and it will retry shrink zones to tap cgroup's reserves memory by setting may_thrash when the former shrink_zones reclaim nothing. However, when memcg is disabled or on legacy hierarchy, it should not do this useless retry at all, for we do not have any cgroup's reserves memory to tap, and we have already done hard work but made no progress. To avoid this time costly and useless retrying, add a stub function may_thrash and return true when memcg is disabled or on legacy hierarchy. Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie Suggested-by: Shakeel Butt --- v2: - more restrictive condition for retry of shrink_zones (restricting cgroup_disabled=memory boot option and cgroup legacy hierarchy) - Shakeel - add a stub function may_thrash() to avoid compile error or warning. - rename subject from "donot retry shrink zones when memcg is disable" to "more restrictive condition for retry in do_try_to_free_pages" Any comment is more than welcome! Thanks Yisheng Xie mm/vmscan.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index bc8031e..415f800 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -184,6 +184,19 @@ static bool sane_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc) #endif return false; } + +static bool may_thrash(struct scan_control *sc) +{ + /* + * When memcg is disabled or on legacy hierarchy, there is no cgroup + * reserves memory to tap. + */ + if (!cgroup_subsys_enabled(memory_cgrp_subsys) || + !cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys)) + return true; + + return sc->may_thrash; +} #else static bool global_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc) { @@ -194,6 +207,11 @@ static bool sane_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc) { return true; } + +static bool may_thrash(struct scan_control *sc) +{ + return true; +} #endif /* @@ -2808,7 +2826,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, return 1; /* Untapped cgroup reserves? Don't OOM, retry. */ - if (!sc->may_thrash) { + if (!may_thrash(sc)) { sc->priority = initial_priority; sc->may_thrash = 1; goto retry; -- 1.9.1