[PATCH] Thin out scan_control: remove nr_to_scan and priority
Make nr_to_scan and priority a parameter instead of putting it into scan
control. This allows various small optimizations and IMHO makes the code
easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index e21bab4..f7c4f37 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -52,9 +52,6 @@
} pageout_t;
struct scan_control {
- /* Ask refill_inactive_zone, or shrink_cache to scan this many pages */
- unsigned long nr_to_scan;
-
/* Incremented by the number of inactive pages that were scanned */
unsigned long nr_scanned;
@@ -63,9 +60,6 @@
unsigned long nr_mapped; /* From page_state */
- /* Ask shrink_caches, or shrink_zone to scan at this priority */
- unsigned int priority;
-
/* This context's GFP mask */
gfp_t gfp_mask;
@@ -1112,11 +1106,10 @@
/*
* shrink_cache() adds the number of pages reclaimed to sc->nr_reclaimed
*/
-static void shrink_cache(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
+static void shrink_cache(int max_scan, struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
{
LIST_HEAD(page_list);
struct pagevec pvec;
- int max_scan = sc->nr_to_scan;
pagevec_init(&pvec, 1);
@@ -1192,12 +1185,11 @@
* But we had to alter page->flags anyway.
*/
static void
-refill_inactive_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
+refill_inactive_zone(int nr_pages, struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
{
int pgmoved;
int pgdeactivate = 0;
int pgscanned;
- int nr_pages = sc->nr_to_scan;
LIST_HEAD(l_hold); /* The pages which were snipped off */
LIST_HEAD(l_inactive); /* Pages to go onto the inactive_list */
LIST_HEAD(l_active); /* Pages to go onto the active_list */
@@ -1332,10 +1324,11 @@
* This is a basic per-zone page freer. Used by both kswapd and direct reclaim.
*/
static void
-shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
+shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
{
unsigned long nr_active;
unsigned long nr_inactive;
+ unsigned long nr_to_scan;
atomic_inc(&zone->reclaim_in_progress);
@@ -1343,14 +1336,14 @@
* Add one to `nr_to_scan' just to make sure that the kernel will
* slowly sift through the active list.
*/
- zone->nr_scan_active += (zone->nr_active >> sc->priority) + 1;
+ zone->nr_scan_active += (zone->nr_active >> priority) + 1;
nr_active = zone->nr_scan_active;
if (nr_active >= sc->swap_cluster_max)
zone->nr_scan_active = 0;
else
nr_active = 0;
- zone->nr_scan_inactive += (zone->nr_inactive >> sc->priority) + 1;
+ zone->nr_scan_inactive += (zone->nr_inactive >> priority) + 1;
nr_inactive = zone->nr_scan_inactive;
if (nr_inactive >= sc->swap_cluster_max)
zone->nr_scan_inactive = 0;
@@ -1359,17 +1352,17 @@
while (nr_active || nr_inactive) {
if (nr_active) {
- sc->nr_to_scan = min(nr_active,
+ nr_to_scan = min(nr_active,
(unsigned long)sc->swap_cluster_max);
- nr_active -= sc->nr_to_scan;
- refill_inactive_zone(zone, sc);
+ nr_active -= nr_to_scan;
+ refill_inactive_zone(nr_to_scan, zone, sc);
}
if (nr_inactive) {
- sc->nr_to_scan = min(nr_inactive,
+ nr_to_scan = min(nr_inactive,
(unsigned long)sc->swap_cluster_max);
- nr_inactive -= sc->nr_to_scan;
- shrink_cache(zone, sc);
+ nr_inactive -= nr_to_scan;
+ shrink_cache(nr_to_scan, zone, sc);
}
}
@@ -1395,7 +1388,7 @@
* scan then give up on it.
*/
static void
-shrink_caches(struct zone **zones, struct scan_control *sc)
+shrink_caches(int priority, struct zone **zones, struct scan_control *sc)
{
int i;
@@ -1408,14 +1401,14 @@
if (!cpuset_zone_allowed(zone, __GFP_HARDWALL))
continue;
- zone->temp_priority = sc->priority;
- if (zone->prev_priority > sc->priority)
- zone->prev_priority = sc->priority;
+ zone->temp_priority = priority;
+ if (zone->prev_priority > priority)
+ zone->prev_priority = priority;
- if (zone->all_unreclaimable && sc->priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
+ if (zone->all_unreclaimable && priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
continue; /* Let kswapd poll it */
- shrink_zone(zone, sc);
+ shrink_zone(priority, zone, sc);
}
}
@@ -1462,11 +1455,10 @@
sc.nr_mapped = read_page_state(nr_mapped);
sc.nr_scanned = 0;
sc.nr_reclaimed = 0;
- sc.priority = priority;
sc.swap_cluster_max = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
if (!priority)
disable_swap_token();
- shrink_caches(zones, &sc);
+ shrink_caches(priority, zones, &sc);
shrink_slab(sc.nr_scanned, gfp_mask, lru_pages);
if (reclaim_state) {
sc.nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab;
@@ -1629,9 +1621,8 @@
zone->prev_priority = priority;
sc.nr_scanned = 0;
sc.nr_reclaimed = 0;
- sc.priority = priority;
sc.swap_cluster_max = nr_pages? nr_pages : SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
- shrink_zone(zone, &sc);
+ shrink_zone(priority, zone, &sc);
reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0;
nr_slab = shrink_slab(sc.nr_scanned, GFP_KERNEL,
lru_pages);
@@ -1886,6 +1877,7 @@
struct scan_control sc;
cpumask_t mask;
int node_id;
+ int priority;
if (time_before(jiffies,
zone->last_unsuccessful_zone_reclaim + zone_reclaim_interval))
@@ -1906,7 +1898,6 @@
sc.may_swap = !!(zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_SWAP);
sc.nr_scanned = 0;
sc.nr_reclaimed = 0;
- sc.priority = ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY + 1;
sc.nr_mapped = read_page_state(nr_mapped);
sc.gfp_mask = gfp_mask;
@@ -1932,11 +1923,11 @@
* Free memory by calling shrink zone with increasing priorities
* until we have enough memory freed.
*/
+ priority = ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY;
do {
- sc.priority--;
- shrink_zone(zone, &sc);
-
- } while (sc.nr_reclaimed < nr_pages && sc.priority > 0);
+ shrink_zone(priority, zone, &sc);
+ priority--;
+ } while (priority >= 0 && sc.nr_reclaimed < nr_pages);
if (sc.nr_reclaimed < nr_pages && (zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_SLAB)) {
/*