mm: modify pgdat_balanced() so that it also handles order-0

Teach pgdat_balanced() about order-0 allocations so that we can simplify
code in a few places in vmstat.c.

Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Zlatko Calusic <zlatko.calusic@iskon.hr>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index adc7e90..23291b9 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2452,12 +2452,16 @@ static bool zone_balanced(struct zone *zone, int order,
 }
 
 /*
- * pgdat_balanced is used when checking if a node is balanced for high-order
- * allocations. Only zones that meet watermarks and are in a zone allowed
- * by the callers classzone_idx are added to balanced_pages. The total of
- * balanced pages must be at least 25% of the zones allowed by classzone_idx
- * for the node to be considered balanced. Forcing all zones to be balanced
- * for high orders can cause excessive reclaim when there are imbalanced zones.
+ * pgdat_balanced() is used when checking if a node is balanced.
+ *
+ * For order-0, all zones must be balanced!
+ *
+ * For high-order allocations only zones that meet watermarks and are in a
+ * zone allowed by the callers classzone_idx are added to balanced_pages. The
+ * total of balanced pages must be at least 25% of the zones allowed by
+ * classzone_idx for the node to be considered balanced. Forcing all zones to
+ * be balanced for high orders can cause excessive reclaim when there are
+ * imbalanced zones.
  * The choice of 25% is due to
  *   o a 16M DMA zone that is balanced will not balance a zone on any
  *     reasonable sized machine
@@ -2467,17 +2471,43 @@ static bool zone_balanced(struct zone *zone, int order,
  *     Similarly, on x86-64 the Normal zone would need to be at least 1G
  *     to balance a node on its own. These seemed like reasonable ratios.
  */
-static bool pgdat_balanced(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long balanced_pages,
-                                               int classzone_idx)
+static bool pgdat_balanced(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx)
 {
        unsigned long present_pages = 0;
+       unsigned long balanced_pages = 0;
        int i;
 
-       for (i = 0; i <= classzone_idx; i++)
-               present_pages += pgdat->node_zones[i].present_pages;
+       /* Check the watermark levels */
+       for (i = 0; i <= classzone_idx; i++) {
+               struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
 
-       /* A special case here: if zone has no page, we think it's balanced */
-       return balanced_pages >= (present_pages >> 2);
+               if (!populated_zone(zone))
+                       continue;
+
+               present_pages += zone->present_pages;
+
+               /*
+                * A special case here:
+                *
+                * balance_pgdat() skips over all_unreclaimable after
+                * DEF_PRIORITY. Effectively, it considers them balanced so
+                * they must be considered balanced here as well!
+                */
+               if (zone->all_unreclaimable) {
+                       balanced_pages += zone->present_pages;
+                       continue;
+               }
+
+               if (zone_balanced(zone, order, 0, i))
+                       balanced_pages += zone->present_pages;
+               else if (!order)
+                       return false;
+       }
+
+       if (order)
+               return balanced_pages >= (present_pages >> 2);
+       else
+               return true;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -2489,10 +2519,6 @@ static bool pgdat_balanced(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long balanced_pages,
 static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining,
                                        int classzone_idx)
 {
-       int i;
-       unsigned long balanced = 0;
-       bool all_zones_ok = true;
-
        /* If a direct reclaimer woke kswapd within HZ/10, it's premature */
        if (remaining)
                return false;
@@ -2511,39 +2537,7 @@ static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining,
                return false;
        }
 
-       /* Check the watermark levels */
-       for (i = 0; i <= classzone_idx; i++) {
-               struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
-
-               if (!populated_zone(zone))
-                       continue;
-
-               /*
-                * balance_pgdat() skips over all_unreclaimable after
-                * DEF_PRIORITY. Effectively, it considers them balanced so
-                * they must be considered balanced here as well if kswapd
-                * is to sleep
-                */
-               if (zone->all_unreclaimable) {
-                       balanced += zone->present_pages;
-                       continue;
-               }
-
-               if (!zone_balanced(zone, order, 0, i))
-                       all_zones_ok = false;
-               else
-                       balanced += zone->present_pages;
-       }
-
-       /*
-        * For high-order requests, the balanced zones must contain at least
-        * 25% of the nodes pages for kswapd to sleep. For order-0, all zones
-        * must be balanced
-        */
-       if (order)
-               return pgdat_balanced(pgdat, balanced, classzone_idx);
-       else
-               return all_zones_ok;
+       return pgdat_balanced(pgdat, order, classzone_idx);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -2571,7 +2565,6 @@ static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order,
                                                        int *classzone_idx)
 {
        struct zone *unbalanced_zone;
-       unsigned long balanced;
        int i;
        int end_zone = 0;       /* Inclusive.  0 = ZONE_DMA */
        unsigned long total_scanned;
@@ -2605,7 +2598,6 @@ loop_again:
                int has_under_min_watermark_zone = 0;
 
                unbalanced_zone = NULL;
-               balanced = 0;
 
                /*
                 * Scan in the highmem->dma direction for the highest
@@ -2761,8 +2753,6 @@ loop_again:
                                 * speculatively avoid congestion waits
                                 */
                                zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_CONGESTED);
-                               if (i <= *classzone_idx)
-                                       balanced += zone->present_pages;
                        }
 
                }
@@ -2776,7 +2766,7 @@ loop_again:
                                pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat))
                        wake_up(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait);
 
-               if (!unbalanced_zone || (order && pgdat_balanced(pgdat, balanced, *classzone_idx)))
+               if (pgdat_balanced(pgdat, order, *classzone_idx))
                        break;          /* kswapd: all done */
                /*
                 * OK, kswapd is getting into trouble.  Take a nap, then take
@@ -2800,12 +2790,7 @@ loop_again:
        } while (--sc.priority >= 0);
 out:
 
-       /*
-        * order-0: All zones must meet high watermark for a balanced node
-        * high-order: Balanced zones must make up at least 25% of the node
-        *             for the node to be balanced
-        */
-       if (unbalanced_zone && (!order || !pgdat_balanced(pgdat, balanced, *classzone_idx))) {
+       if (!pgdat_balanced(pgdat, order, *classzone_idx)) {
                cond_resched();
 
                try_to_freeze();