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mm: track actual nr_scanned during shrink_slab() 

Some shrinkers may only be able to free a bunch of objects at a time,
and so free more than the requested nr_to_scan in one pass.

Whilst other shrinkers may find themselves even unable to scan as many
objects as they counted, and so underreport.  Account for the extra
freed/scanned objects against the total number of objects we intend to
scan, otherwise we may end up penalising the slab far more than
intended.  Similarly, we want to add the underperforming scan to the
deferred pass so that we try harder and harder in future passes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170822135325.9191-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Chris Wilson 2017-09-06 16:19:26 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent ce6fa91b93
commit d460acb5bd
2 changed files with 11 additions and 3 deletions
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include/linux/shrinker.h
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@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ struct shrink_control {
*/
unsigned long nr_to_scan;
/*
* How many objects did scan_objects process?
* This defaults to nr_to_scan before every call, but the callee
* should track its actual progress.
*/
unsigned long nr_scanned;
/* current node being shrunk (for NUMA aware shrinkers) */
int nid;

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mm/vmscan.c
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@ -393,14 +393,15 @@ static unsigned long do_shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrinkctl,
unsigned long nr_to_scan = min(batch_size, total_scan);
shrinkctl->nr_to_scan = nr_to_scan;
shrinkctl->nr_scanned = nr_to_scan;
ret = shrinker->scan_objects(shrinker, shrinkctl);
if (ret == SHRINK_STOP)
break;
freed += ret;
count_vm_events(SLABS_SCANNED, nr_to_scan);
total_scan -= nr_to_scan;
scanned += nr_to_scan;
count_vm_events(SLABS_SCANNED, shrinkctl->nr_scanned);
total_scan -= shrinkctl->nr_scanned;
scanned += shrinkctl->nr_scanned;
cond_resched();
}