mm, reclaim: cleanup should_continue_reclaim()

After commit "mm, reclaim: make should_continue_reclaim perform dryrun
detection", closer look at the function shows, that nr_reclaimed == 0
means the function will always return false.  And since non-zero
nr_reclaimed implies non_zero nr_scanned, testing nr_scanned serves no
purpose, and so does the testing for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL.

This patch thus cleans up the function to test only !nr_reclaimed upfront,
and remove the __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL test and nr_scanned parameter
completely.  Comment is also updated, explaining that approximating "full
LRU list has been scanned" with nr_scanned == 0 didn't really work.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190806014744.15446-3-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 83b5d52..c27dd62 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2586,7 +2586,6 @@ static bool in_reclaim_compaction(struct scan_control *sc)
  */
 static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
                                        unsigned long nr_reclaimed,
-                                       unsigned long nr_scanned,
                                        struct scan_control *sc)
 {
        unsigned long pages_for_compaction;
@@ -2597,28 +2596,18 @@ static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
        if (!in_reclaim_compaction(sc))
                return false;
 
-       /* Consider stopping depending on scan and reclaim activity */
-       if (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL) {
-               /*
-                * For __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations, stop reclaiming if the
-                * full LRU list has been scanned and we are still failing
-                * to reclaim pages. This full LRU scan is potentially
-                * expensive but a __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL caller really wants to succeed
-                */
-               if (!nr_reclaimed && !nr_scanned)
-                       return false;
-       } else {
-               /*
-                * For non-__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations which can presumably
-                * fail without consequence, stop if we failed to reclaim
-                * any pages from the last SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX number of
-                * pages that were scanned. This will return to the
-                * caller faster at the risk reclaim/compaction and
-                * the resulting allocation attempt fails
-                */
-               if (!nr_reclaimed)
-                       return false;
-       }
+       /*
+        * Stop if we failed to reclaim any pages from the last SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
+        * number of pages that were scanned. This will return to the caller
+        * with the risk reclaim/compaction and the resulting allocation attempt
+        * fails. In the past we have tried harder for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
+        * allocations through requiring that the full LRU list has been scanned
+        * first, by assuming that zero delta of sc->nr_scanned means full LRU
+        * scan, but that approximation was wrong, and there were corner cases
+        * where always a non-zero amount of pages were scanned.
+        */
+       if (!nr_reclaimed)
+               return false;
 
        /* If compaction would go ahead or the allocation would succeed, stop */
        for (z = 0; z <= sc->reclaim_idx; z++) {
@@ -2645,11 +2634,7 @@ static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
        if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
                inactive_lru_pages += node_page_state(pgdat, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
 
-       return inactive_lru_pages > pages_for_compaction &&
-               /*
-                * avoid dryrun with plenty of inactive pages
-                */
-               nr_scanned && nr_reclaimed;
+       return inactive_lru_pages > pages_for_compaction;
 }
 
 static bool pgdat_memcg_congested(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
@@ -2794,7 +2779,7 @@ static bool shrink_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc)
                        wait_iff_congested(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
 
        } while (should_continue_reclaim(pgdat, sc->nr_reclaimed - nr_reclaimed,
-                                        sc->nr_scanned - nr_scanned, sc));
+                                        sc));
 
        /*
         * Kswapd gives up on balancing particular nodes after too