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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch 06/21] split LRU lists into anon & file sets
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:13:44 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080301205902.5295.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080228192928.412991306@redhat.com>
Hi
>@@ -1128,64 +1026,65 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned
(snip)
> + /*
> + * For sorting active vs inactive pages, we'll use the 'anon'
> + * elements of the local list[] array and sort out the file vs
> + * anon pages below.
> + */
IMHO this comment implies code is not so good...
I think shrink_active_list should not change to indexed array.
because this function almost use no indexed array operation.
the following is only explain my intention patch.
---
mm/vmscan.c | 29 +++++++++++------------------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
Index: b/mm/vmscan.c
===================================================================
--- a/mm/vmscan.c 2008-03-01 21:11:03.000000000 +0900
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c 2008-03-01 21:13:13.000000000 +0900
@@ -1023,14 +1023,12 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned
int pgdeactivate = 0;
unsigned long pgscanned;
LIST_HEAD(l_hold); /* The pages which were snipped off */
- struct list_head list[NR_LRU_LISTS];
+ LIST_HEAD(l_active);
+ LIST_HEAD(l_inactive);
struct page *page;
struct pagevec pvec;
enum lru_list lru;
- for_each_lru(lru)
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&list[lru]);
-
lru_add_drain();
spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
pgmoved = sc->isolate_pages(nr_pages, &l_hold, &pgscanned, sc->order,
@@ -1048,19 +1046,14 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned
__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON, -pgmoved);
spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
- /*
- * For sorting active vs inactive pages, we'll use the 'anon'
- * elements of the local list[] array and sort out the file vs
- * anon pages below.
- */
while (!list_empty(&l_hold)) {
- lru = LRU_INACTIVE_ANON;
cond_resched();
page = lru_to_page(&l_hold);
list_del(&page->lru);
if (page_referenced(page, 0, sc->mem_cgroup))
- lru = LRU_ACTIVE_ANON;
- list_add(&page->lru, &list[lru]);
+ list_add(&page->lru, &l_active);
+ else
+ list_add(&page->lru, &l_inactive);
}
/*
@@ -1071,9 +1064,9 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned
pgmoved = 0;
lru = LRU_BASE + file * LRU_FILE;
spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
- while (!list_empty(&list[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON])) {
- page = lru_to_page(&list[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON]);
- prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page, &list[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON], flags);
+ while (!list_empty(&l_inactive)) {
+ page = lru_to_page(&l_inactive);
+ prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page, &l_inactive, flags);
VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page));
SetPageLRU(page);
VM_BUG_ON(!PageActive(page));
@@ -1104,9 +1097,9 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned
pgmoved = 0;
lru = LRU_ACTIVE + file * LRU_FILE;
- while (!list_empty(&list[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON])) {
- page = lru_to_page(&list[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON]);
- prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page, &list[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON], flags);
+ while (!list_empty(&l_active)) {
+ page = lru_to_page(&l_active);
+ prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page, &l_active, flags);
VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page));
SetPageLRU(page);
VM_BUG_ON(!PageActive(page));
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-01 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-28 19:29 [patch 00/21] VM pageout scalability improvements Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 01/21] move isolate_lru_page() to vmscan.c Rik van Riel
2008-02-29 2:29 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-29 2:41 ` Rik van Riel
2008-02-29 2:47 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 02/21] Use an indexed array for LRU variables Rik van Riel
2008-02-29 16:03 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-03-03 18:57 ` Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 03/21] use an array for the LRU pagevecs Rik van Riel
2008-02-29 15:40 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-03-01 7:02 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-04 11:04 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-04 20:38 ` Rik van Riel
2008-03-05 1:38 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 04/21] free swap space on swap-in/activation Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 20:05 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-02-28 20:20 ` Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 05/21] define page_file_cache() function Rik van Riel
2008-02-29 11:53 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 06/21] split LRU lists into anon & file sets Rik van Riel
2008-03-01 12:13 ` KOSAKI Motohiro [this message]
2008-03-01 12:46 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 07/21] SEQ replacement for anonymous pages Rik van Riel
2008-03-03 10:50 ` barrioskmc@gmail
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 08/21] (NEW) add some sanity checks to get_scan_ratio Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 10:40 ` minchan Kim
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 09/21] (NEW) improve reclaim balancing Rik van Riel
2008-03-01 13:35 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-03 19:26 ` Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 10/21] add newly swapped in pages to the inactive list Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 11/21] (NEW) more aggressively use lumpy reclaim Rik van Riel
2008-03-02 10:35 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-02 14:23 ` Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 12/21] No Reclaim LRU Infrastructure Rik van Riel
[not found] ` <44c63dc40802282058h67f7597bvb614575f06c62e2c@mail.gmail.com>
2008-02-29 14:48 ` Lee Schermerhorn
[not found] ` <44c63dc40803021904n5de681datba400e08079c152d@mail.gmail.com>
2008-03-03 3:06 ` minchan Kim
2008-03-03 18:46 ` Rik van Riel
2008-03-03 23:38 ` barrioskmc@gmail
2008-03-04 1:55 ` Rik van Riel
2008-03-04 10:46 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-04 15:05 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-03-04 21:21 ` Rik van Riel
2008-03-05 1:42 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 13/21] Non-reclaimable page statistics Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 14/21] scan noreclaim list for reclaimable pages Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 23:41 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-29 14:38 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 15/21] ramfs pages are non-reclaimable Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 16/21] SHM_LOCKED pages are nonreclaimable Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 17/21] non-reclaimable mlocked pages Rik van Riel
[not found] ` <44c63dc40802282055q508af6ccsb0e8ac3fb5e67d24@mail.gmail.com>
2008-02-29 14:47 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 18/21] mlock vma pages under mmap_sem held for read Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 19/21] handle mlocked pages during map/unmap and truncate Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 20/21] account mlocked pages Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 19:29 ` [patch 21/21] cull non-reclaimable anon pages from the LRU at fault time Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 20:19 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-02-28 22:27 ` Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 19:49 ` [patch 00/21] VM pageout scalability improvements Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 20:14 ` John Stoffel
2008-02-28 20:23 ` Rik van Riel
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