Re: [RFC PATCH v2] mm: Add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim

[Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>]

> On Dec 2, 2022, at 06:10, Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 1:32 PM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 06:03:27PM -0800, Mina Almasry wrote:
>> [...]
>>> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
>>> index 7b8e8e43806b..23fc5b523764 100644
>>> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
>>> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
>>> @@ -6735,7 +6735,8 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>>> unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>>>                                         unsigned long nr_pages,
>>>                                         gfp_t gfp_mask,
>>> -                                        unsigned int reclaim_options)
>>> +                                        unsigned int reclaim_options,
>>> +                                        nodemask_t nodemask)
>> 
>> Can you please make this parameter a nodemask_t* and pass NULL instead
>> of NODE_MASK_ALL?
> 
> Thank you very much for the review. I sure can in the next version. To
> be honest I thought about that and made the parameter nodemask_t
> because I thought the call sites would be more readable. I.e. this:
> 
>    try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, 1, GFP_KERNEL,
> MEMCG_RECLAIM_MAY_SWAP,  NODE_MASK_ALL);

nodemask_t is an array, which can be large depending on CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT.
I don't think passing a big array is an efficient way. So I agree with Shakeel.

Thanks.

> 
> Would be more readable than this:
> 
>    try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, 1, GFP_KERNEL,
> MEMCG_RECLAIM_MAY_SWAP,  NULL);
> 
> But the tradeoff is that the callers need include/linux/nodemask.h.
> But yes I can fix in the next version.
>