memcg: count the soft_limit reclaim in global background reclaim
The global kswapd scans per-zone LRU and reclaims pages regardless of the
cgroup. It breaks memory isolation since one cgroup can end up reclaiming
pages from another cgroup. Instead we should rely on memcg-aware target
reclaim including per-memcg kswapd and soft_limit hierarchical reclaim under
memory pressure.
In the global background reclaim, we do soft reclaim before scanning the
per-zone LRU. However, the return value is ignored. This patch is the first
step to skip shrink_zone() if soft_limit reclaim does enough work.
This is part of the effort which tries to reduce reclaiming pages in global
LRU in memcg. The per-memcg background reclaim patchset further enhances the
per-cgroup targetting reclaim, which I should have V4 posted shortly.
Try running multiple memory intensive workloads within seperate memcgs. Watch
the counters of soft_steal in memory.stat.
$ cat /dev/cgroup/A/memory.stat | grep 'soft'
soft_steal 240000
soft_scan 240000
total_soft_steal 240000
total_soft_scan 240000
This patch:
In the global background reclaim, we do soft reclaim before scanning the
per-zone LRU. However, the return value is ignored.
We would like to skip shrink_zone() if soft_limit reclaim does enough
work. Also, we need to make the memory pressure balanced across per-memcg
zones, like the logic vm-core. This patch is the first step where we
start with counting the nr_scanned and nr_reclaimed from soft_limit
reclaim into the global scan_control.
Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 5e9840f5..0629121 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -144,7 +144,8 @@
}
unsigned long mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(struct zone *zone, int order,
- gfp_t gfp_mask);
+ gfp_t gfp_mask,
+ unsigned long *total_scanned);
u64 mem_cgroup_get_limit(struct mem_cgroup *mem);
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
@@ -338,7 +339,8 @@
static inline
unsigned long mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(struct zone *zone, int order,
- gfp_t gfp_mask)
+ gfp_t gfp_mask,
+ unsigned long *total_scanned)
{
return 0;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index a5c6da5..384eb5f 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -257,7 +257,8 @@
extern unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
unsigned int swappiness,
- struct zone *zone);
+ struct zone *zone,
+ unsigned long *nr_scanned);
extern int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, int mode, int file);
extern unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned long nr_pages);
extern int vm_swappiness;