From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com (penguin.e-mind.com [195.223.140.120]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA30469 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 08:22:40 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:21:24 +0100 (CET) From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: Results: arcavm15, et. al. In-Reply-To: <36992ED2.D05EA28F@netplus.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Steve Bergman Cc: Linus Torvalds , brent verner , "Garst R. Reese" , Kalle Andersson , Zlatko Calusic , Ben McCann , bredelin@ucsd.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org, Alan Cox , "Stephen C. Tweedie" List-ID: On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Steve Bergman wrote: > For the image load test: > > pre6+zlatko's_patch 2:35 > arcavm15 1:59 Steve, could you give a try to this new arca-vm-16? arca-vm-16 is still against 2.2.0-pre6 because last night I can't find pre7 on the ftp site. Index: linux/mm/vmscan.c diff -u linux/mm/vmscan.c:1.1.1.11 linux/mm/vmscan.c:1.1.1.1.2.86 --- linux/mm/vmscan.c:1.1.1.11 Sat Jan 9 12:58:26 1999 +++ linux/mm/vmscan.c Mon Jan 11 14:14:13 1999 @@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ * Version: $Id: vmscan.c,v 1.5 1998/02/23 22:14:28 sct Exp $ */ +/* + * free_user_and_cache() and always async swapout original idea. + * Copyright (C) 1999 Andrea Arcangeli + */ + #include #include #include @@ -20,6 +25,8 @@ #include +int swapout_interval = HZ; + /* * The swap-out functions return 1 if they successfully * threw something out, and we got a free page. It returns @@ -306,7 +313,8 @@ static int swap_out(unsigned int priority, int gfp_mask) { struct task_struct * p, * pbest; - int counter, assign, max_cnt; + int counter, assign; + unsigned long max_cnt; /* * We make one or two passes through the task list, indexed by @@ -325,7 +333,7 @@ counter = nr_tasks / (priority+1); if (counter < 1) counter = 1; - if (counter > nr_tasks) + else if (counter > nr_tasks) counter = nr_tasks; for (; counter >= 0; counter--) { @@ -338,7 +346,7 @@ for (; p != &init_task; p = p->next_task) { if (!p->swappable) continue; - if (p->mm->rss <= 0) + if (p->mm->rss == 0) continue; /* Refresh swap_cnt? */ if (assign) @@ -430,7 +438,7 @@ break; current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE; run_task_queue(&tq_disk); - schedule_timeout(HZ); + schedule_timeout(swapout_interval); /* * kswapd isn't even meant to keep up with anything, @@ -438,13 +446,36 @@ * point is to make sure that the system doesn't stay * forever in a really bad memory squeeze. */ - if (nr_free_pages < freepages.high) - try_to_free_pages(0, 16); + if (nr_free_pages < freepages.min) + try_to_free_pages(0, freepages.high - nr_free_pages); } return 0; } +static int free_user_and_cache(int priority, int gfp_mask) +{ + static unsigned long grow_swap_cache = 0; + + if (!shrink_mmap(priority, gfp_mask)) + grow_swap_cache = 1; + + switch (grow_swap_cache) + { + case 0: + return 1; + default: + if (grow_swap_cache++ >= freepages.high) + grow_swap_cache = 0; + } + + if (swap_out(priority, gfp_mask)) + return 1; + + grow_swap_cache = 0; + return 0; +} + /* * We need to make the locks finer granularity, but right * now we need this so that we can do page allocations @@ -457,33 +488,32 @@ int try_to_free_pages(unsigned int gfp_mask, int count) { int priority; + static int state = 0; lock_kernel(); - /* Always trim SLAB caches when memory gets low. */ - kmem_cache_reap(gfp_mask); - priority = 6; - do { - while (shrink_mmap(priority, gfp_mask)) { - if (!--count) - goto done; - } - - /* Try to get rid of some shared memory pages.. */ - while (shm_swap(priority, gfp_mask)) { - if (!--count) - goto done; - } - - /* Then, try to page stuff out.. */ - while (swap_out(priority, gfp_mask)) { - if (!--count) - goto done; - } + switch (state) + { + do { + case 0: + while (free_user_and_cache(priority, gfp_mask)) { + if (!--count) + goto done; + } + state = 1; + case 1: + /* Try to get rid of some shared memory pages.. */ + while (shm_swap(priority, gfp_mask)) { + if (!--count) + goto done; + } + state = 0; - shrink_dcache_memory(priority, gfp_mask); - } while (--priority >= 0); + kmem_cache_reap(gfp_mask); + shrink_dcache_memory(priority, gfp_mask); + } while (--priority >= 0); + } done: unlock_kernel(); Andrea Arcangeli -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org