Re: [PATCH 8/8] Per-container pages reclamation

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Pavel Emelianov wrote:
Implement try_to_free_pages_in_container() to free the
pages in container that has run out of memory.

The scan_control->isolate_pages() function isolates the
container pages only.

+#ifdef CONFIG_RSS_CONTAINER
+unsigned long try_to_free_pages_in_container(struct rss_container *cnt)
+{
+	struct scan_control sc = {
+		.gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
+		.may_writepage = 1,
+		.swap_cluster_max = 1,
+		.may_swap = 1,
+		.swappiness = vm_swappiness,
+		.cnt = cnt,
+		.isolate_pages = isolate_pages_in_container,
+	};
+	int node;
+	struct zone **zones;
+
+	for_each_node(node) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
+		zones = NODE_DATA(node)->node_zonelists[ZONE_HIGHMEM].zones;
+		if (do_try_to_free_pages(zones, sc.gfp_mask, &sc))
+			return 1;
+#endif
+		zones = NODE_DATA(node)->node_zonelists[ZONE_NORMAL].zones;
+		if (do_try_to_free_pages(zones, sc.gfp_mask, &sc))
+			return 1;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif
+

Hi, Pavel,

This patch fixes a bug in the RSS controller, where we walk through all
nodes during reclaim in try_to_free_pages_in_container(). Instead of
for_each_node(), we now use for_each_online_node() so that we do not
end up with invalid zones from nodes that are not online.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <[email protected]>
---

 mm/vmscan.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~rss-fix-nodescan mm/vmscan.c
--- linux-2.6.20/mm/vmscan.c~rss-fix-nodescan 2007-05-02 14:47:09.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.20-balbir/mm/vmscan.c	2007-05-02 14:47:25.000000000 +0530
@@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages_in_conta
 	int node;
 	struct zone **zones;

-	for_each_node(node) {
+	for_each_online_node(node) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
 		zones = NODE_DATA(node)->node_zonelists[ZONE_HIGHMEM].zones;
 		if (do_try_to_free_pages(zones, sc.gfp_mask, &sc))
_

--
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL
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