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SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/10] mm: vmscan: Flatten kswapd priority loop
Hi Mel,
On 03/19/2013 06:14 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:08:23AM +0800, Simon Jeons wrote:
>> Hi Mel,
>> On 03/17/2013 09:04 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
>>> kswapd stops raising the scanning priority when at least SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
>>> pages have been reclaimed or the pgdat is considered balanced. It then
>>> rechecks if it needs to restart at DEF_PRIORITY and whether high-order
>>> reclaim needs to be reset. This is not wrong per-se but it is confusing
>> per-se is short for what?
>>
> It means "in self" or "as such".
>
>>> to follow and forcing kswapd to stay at DEF_PRIORITY may require several
>>> restarts before it has scanned enough pages to meet the high watermark even
>>> at 100% efficiency. This patch irons out the logic a bit by controlling
>>> when priority is raised and removing the "goto loop_again".
>>>
>>> This patch has kswapd raise the scanning priority until it is scanningmm: vmscan: Flatten kswapd priority loop
>>> enough pages that it could meet the high watermark in one shrink of the
>>> LRU lists if it is able to reclaim at 100% efficiency. It will not raise
>> Which kind of reclaim can be treated as 100% efficiency?
>>
> 100% efficiency is where every page scanned can be reclaimed immediately.
>
>>> /*
>>> - * We do this so kswapd doesn't build up large priorities for
>>> - * example when it is freeing in parallel with allocators. It
>>> - * matches the direct reclaim path behaviour in terms of impact
>>> - * on zone->*_priority.
>>> + * Fragmentation may mean that the system cannot be rebalanced
>>> + * for high-order allocations in all zones. If twice the
>>> + * allocation size has been reclaimed and the zones are still
>>> + * not balanced then recheck the watermarks at order-0 to
>>> + * prevent kswapd reclaiming excessively. Assume that a
>>> + * process requested a high-order can direct reclaim/compact.
>>> */
>>> - if (sc.nr_reclaimed >= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX)
>>> - break;
>>> - } while (--sc.priority >= 0);
>>> + if (order && sc.nr_reclaimed >= 2UL << order)
>>> + order = sc.order = 0;
>> If order == 0 is meet, should we do defrag for it?
>>
> Compaction is unnecessary for order-0.
>

I mean since order && sc.reclaimed >= 2UL << order, it is reclaimed for
high order allocation, if order == 0 is meet, should we do defrag for it?



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