From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD4946B0169 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:06:13 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [patch]vmscan: clear ZONE_CONGESTED for zone with good watermark -resend From: Shaohua Li Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:07:26 +0800 Message-ID: <1313975246.29510.11.camel@sli10-conroe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm , mel , Minchan Kim ZONE_CONGESTED is only cleared in kswapd, but pages can be freed in any task. It's possible ZONE_CONGESTED isn't cleared in some cases: 1. the zone is already balanced just entering balance_pgdat() for order-0 because concurrent tasks free memory. In this case, later check will skip the zone as it's balanced so the flag isn't cleared. 2. high order balance fallbacks to order-0. quote from Mel: At the end of balance_pgdat(), kswapd uses the following logic; If reclaiming at high order { for each zone { if all_unreclaimable skip if watermark is not met order = 0 loop again /* watermark is met */ clear congested } } i.e. it clears ZONE_CONGESTED if it the zone is balanced. if not, it restarts balancing at order-0. However, if the higher zones are balanced for order-0, kswapd will miss clearing ZONE_CONGESTED as that only happens after a zone is shrunk. This can mean that wait_iff_congested() stalls unnecessarily. This patch makes kswapd clear ZONE_CONGESTED during its initial highmem->dma scan for zones that are already balanced. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Acked-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim --- mm/vmscan.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) Index: linux/mm/vmscan.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/mm/vmscan.c 2011-08-11 09:26:37.000000000 +0800 +++ linux/mm/vmscan.c 2011-08-22 09:01:19.000000000 +0800 @@ -2529,6 +2529,9 @@ loop_again: high_wmark_pages(zone), 0, 0)) { end_zone = i; break; + } else { + /* If balanced, clear the congested flag */ + zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_CONGESTED); } } if (i < 0) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org