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author | Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> | 2015-02-12 14:58:47 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-02-12 18:54:08 -0800 |
commit | 503c358cf1925853195ee39ec437e51138bbb7df (patch) | |
tree | 14aebe291975ec4353f21068990ebfec503ed63f /fs/internal.h | |
parent | 10c1045f28e86ac90589a188f0be2d7a4347efdf (diff) | |
download | lwn-503c358cf1925853195ee39ec437e51138bbb7df.tar.gz lwn-503c358cf1925853195ee39ec437e51138bbb7df.zip |
list_lru: introduce list_lru_shrink_{count,walk}
Kmem accounting of memcg is unusable now, because it lacks slab shrinker
support. That means when we hit the limit we will get ENOMEM w/o any
chance to recover. What we should do then is to call shrink_slab, which
would reclaim old inode/dentry caches from this cgroup. This is what
this patch set is intended to do.
Basically, it does two things. First, it introduces the notion of
per-memcg slab shrinker. A shrinker that wants to reclaim objects per
cgroup should mark itself as SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE. Then it will be
passed the memory cgroup to scan from in shrink_control->memcg. For
such shrinkers shrink_slab iterates over the whole cgroup subtree under
the target cgroup and calls the shrinker for each kmem-active memory
cgroup.
Secondly, this patch set makes the list_lru structure per-memcg. It's
done transparently to list_lru users - everything they have to do is to
tell list_lru_init that they want memcg-aware list_lru. Then the
list_lru will automatically distribute objects among per-memcg lists
basing on which cgroup the object is accounted to. This way to make FS
shrinkers (icache, dcache) memcg-aware we only need to make them use
memcg-aware list_lru, and this is what this patch set does.
As before, this patch set only enables per-memcg kmem reclaim when the
pressure goes from memory.limit, not from memory.kmem.limit. Handling
memory.kmem.limit is going to be tricky due to GFP_NOFS allocations, and
it is still unclear whether we will have this knob in the unified
hierarchy.
This patch (of 9):
NUMA aware slab shrinkers use the list_lru structure to distribute
objects coming from different NUMA nodes to different lists. Whenever
such a shrinker needs to count or scan objects from a particular node,
it issues commands like this:
count = list_lru_count_node(lru, sc->nid);
freed = list_lru_walk_node(lru, sc->nid, isolate_func,
isolate_arg, &sc->nr_to_scan);
where sc is an instance of the shrink_control structure passed to it
from vmscan.
To simplify this, let's add special list_lru functions to be used by
shrinkers, list_lru_shrink_count() and list_lru_shrink_walk(), which
consolidate the nid and nr_to_scan arguments in the shrink_control
structure.
This will also allow us to avoid patching shrinkers that use list_lru
when we make shrink_slab() per-memcg - all we will have to do is extend
the shrink_control structure to include the target memcg and make
list_lru_shrink_{count,walk} handle this appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Suggested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/internal.h')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/internal.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h index e9a61fe67575..d92c346a793d 100644 --- a/fs/internal.h +++ b/fs/internal.h @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ struct file_system_type; struct linux_binprm; struct path; struct mount; +struct shrink_control; /* * block_dev.c @@ -111,8 +112,7 @@ extern int open_check_o_direct(struct file *f); * inode.c */ extern spinlock_t inode_sb_list_lock; -extern long prune_icache_sb(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long nr_to_scan, - int nid); +extern long prune_icache_sb(struct super_block *sb, struct shrink_control *sc); extern void inode_add_lru(struct inode *inode); /* @@ -129,8 +129,7 @@ extern int invalidate_inodes(struct super_block *, bool); */ extern struct dentry *__d_alloc(struct super_block *, const struct qstr *); extern int d_set_mounted(struct dentry *dentry); -extern long prune_dcache_sb(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long nr_to_scan, - int nid); +extern long prune_dcache_sb(struct super_block *sb, struct shrink_control *sc); /* * read_write.c |