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vmscan: per-node deferred work
authorGlauber Costa <[email protected]>
Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:18:04 +0000 (10:18 +1000)
committerAl Viro <[email protected]>
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:56:31 +0000 (18:56 -0400)
commit1d3d4437eae1bb2963faab427f65f90663c64aa1
tree1a5aa2be9b9f260fcd5dbd70b5c4e540b177b3f3
parent0ce3d74450815500e31f16a0b65f6bab687985c3
vmscan: per-node deferred work

The list_lru infrastructure already keeps per-node LRU lists in its
node-specific list_lru_node arrays and provide us with a per-node API, and
the shrinkers are properly equiped with node information.  This means that
we can now focus our shrinking effort in a single node, but the work that
is deferred from one run to another is kept global at nr_in_batch.  Work
can be deferred, for instance, during direct reclaim under a GFP_NOFS
allocation, where situation, all the filesystem shrinkers will be
prevented from running and accumulate in nr_in_batch the amount of work
they should have done, but could not.

This creates an impedance problem, where upon node pressure, work deferred
will accumulate and end up being flushed in other nodes.  The problem we
describe is particularly harmful in big machines, where many nodes can
accumulate at the same time, all adding to the global counter nr_in_batch.
 As we accumulate more and more, we start to ask for the caches to flush
even bigger numbers.  The result is that the caches are depleted and do
not stabilize.  To achieve stable steady state behavior, we need to tackle
it differently.

In this patch we keep the deferred count per-node, in the new array
nr_deferred[] (the name is also a bit more descriptive) and will never
accumulate that to other nodes.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <[email protected]>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Thelen <[email protected]>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <[email protected]>
Cc: John Stultz <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <[email protected]>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
include/linux/shrinker.h
mm/vmscan.c
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