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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2007-10-16 23:26:01 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-17 08:42:46 -0700
commitd773ed6b856a96bd6d18b6e04455e3ced0876da4 (patch)
treef0235be6843ec323aeedcdadbee34a777b6c2690
parentae74138da609c576b221c765efa8b81b2365f465 (diff)
mm: test and set zone reclaim lock before starting reclaim
Introduces new zone flag interface for testing and setting flags: int zone_test_and_set_flag(struct zone *zone, zone_flags_t flag) Instead of setting and clearing ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED each time shrink_zone() is called, this flag is test and set before starting zone reclaim. Zone reclaim starts in __alloc_pages() when a zone's watermark fails and the system is in zone_reclaim_mode. If it's already in reclaim, there's no need to start again so it is simply considered full for that allocation attempt. There is a change of behavior with regard to concurrent zone shrinking. It is now possible for try_to_free_pages() or kswapd to already be shrinking a particular zone when __alloc_pages() starts zone reclaim. In this case, it is possible for two concurrent threads to invoke shrink_zone() for a single zone. This change forbids a zone to be in zone reclaim twice, which was always the behavior, but allows for concurrent try_to_free_pages() or kswapd shrinking when starting zone reclaim. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mmzone.h8
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c23
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 9011505e740d..4c4522a51a3b 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -351,6 +351,12 @@ static inline void zone_set_flag(struct zone *zone, zone_flags_t flag)
{
set_bit(flag, &zone->flags);
}
+
+static inline int zone_test_and_set_flag(struct zone *zone, zone_flags_t flag)
+{
+ return test_and_set_bit(flag, &zone->flags);
+}
+
static inline void zone_clear_flag(struct zone *zone, zone_flags_t flag)
{
clear_bit(flag, &zone->flags);
@@ -360,10 +366,12 @@ static inline int zone_is_all_unreclaimable(const struct zone *zone)
{
return test_bit(ZONE_ALL_UNRECLAIMABLE, &zone->flags);
}
+
static inline int zone_is_reclaim_locked(const struct zone *zone)
{
return test_bit(ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED, &zone->flags);
}
+
static inline int zone_is_oom_locked(const struct zone *zone)
{
return test_bit(ZONE_OOM_LOCKED, &zone->flags);
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index d8893dc2d4eb..e1471385d001 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1108,8 +1108,6 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone,
unsigned long nr_to_scan;
unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
- zone_set_flag(zone, ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED);
-
/*
* Add one to `nr_to_scan' just to make sure that the kernel will
* slowly sift through the active list.
@@ -1148,8 +1146,6 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone,
}
throttle_vm_writeout(sc->gfp_mask);
-
- zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED);
return nr_reclaimed;
}
@@ -1900,6 +1896,7 @@ static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
int zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
{
int node_id;
+ int ret;
/*
* Zone reclaim reclaims unmapped file backed pages and
@@ -1917,13 +1914,13 @@ int zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
<= zone->min_slab_pages)
return 0;
+ if (zone_is_all_unreclaimable(zone))
+ return 0;
+
/*
- * Avoid concurrent zone reclaims, do not reclaim in a zone that does
- * not have reclaimable pages and if we should not delay the allocation
- * then do not scan.
+ * Do not scan if the allocation should not be delayed.
*/
- if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) || zone_is_all_unreclaimable(zone) ||
- zone_is_reclaim_locked(zone) || (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
+ if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT) || (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
return 0;
/*
@@ -1935,6 +1932,12 @@ int zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
node_id = zone_to_nid(zone);
if (node_state(node_id, N_CPU) && node_id != numa_node_id())
return 0;
- return __zone_reclaim(zone, gfp_mask, order);
+
+ if (zone_test_and_set_flag(zone, ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED))
+ return 0;
+ ret = __zone_reclaim(zone, gfp_mask, order);
+ zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED);
+
+ return ret;
}
#endif