On Sun 17-03-13 13:04:07, Mel Gorman wrote:
[...]
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 88c5fed..4835a7a 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -2593,6 +2593,32 @@ static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int
> order, long remaining,
> }
>
> /*
> + * kswapd shrinks the zone by the number of pages required to reach
> + * the high watermark.
> + */
> +static void kswapd_shrink_zone(struct zone *zone,
> + struct scan_control *sc,
> + unsigned long lru_pages)
> +{
> + unsigned long nr_slab;
> + struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;
> + struct shrink_control shrink = {
> + .gfp_mask = sc->gfp_mask,
> + };
> +
> + /* Reclaim above the high watermark. */
> + sc->nr_to_reclaim = max(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, high_wmark_pages(zone));
OK, so the cap is at high watermark which sounds OK to me, although I
would expect balance_gap being considered here. Is it not used
intentionally or you just wanted to have a reasonable upper bound?
I am not objecting to that it just hit my eyes.
> + shrink_zone(zone, sc);
> +
> + reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0;
> + nr_slab = shrink_slab(&shrink, sc->nr_scanned, lru_pages);
> + sc->nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab;
> +
> + if (nr_slab == 0 && !zone_reclaimable(zone))
> + zone->all_unreclaimable = 1;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> * For kswapd, balance_pgdat() will work across all this node's zones until
> * they are all at high_wmark_pages(zone).
> *
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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