mm: do batched scans for mem_cgroup

For mem_cgroup, shrink_zone() may call shrink_list() with nr_to_scan=1, in
which case shrink_list() _still_ calls isolate_pages() with the much
larger SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX.  It effectively scales up the inactive list scan
rate by up to 32 times.

For example, with 16k inactive pages and DEF_PRIORITY=12, (16k >> 12)=4.
So when shrink_zone() expects to scan 4 pages in the active/inactive list,
the active list will be scanned 4 pages, while the inactive list will be
(over) scanned SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX=32 pages in effect.  And that could break
the balance between the two lists.

It can further impact the scan of anon active list, due to the anon
active/inactive ratio rebalance logic in balance_pgdat()/shrink_zone():

inactive anon list over scanned => inactive_anon_is_low() == TRUE
                                => shrink_active_list()
                                => active anon list over scanned

So the end result may be

- anon inactive  => over scanned
- anon active    => over scanned (maybe not as much)
- file inactive  => over scanned
- file active    => under scanned (relatively)

The accesses to nr_saved_scan are not lock protected and so not 100%
accurate, however we can tolerate small errors and the resulted small
imbalanced scan rates between zones.

Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 770f011e1c12..84d9da1e8f4c 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3809,7 +3809,7 @@ static void __paginginit free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
                 zone_pcp_init(zone);
                 for_each_lru(l) {
                         INIT_LIST_HEAD(&zone->lru[l].list);
-                        zone->lru[l].nr_saved_scan = 0;
+                        zone->reclaim_stat.nr_saved_scan[l] = 0;
                 }
                 zone->reclaim_stat.recent_rotated[0] = 0;
                 zone->reclaim_stat.recent_rotated[1] = 0;
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 5432c230c4cb..0e7f5e4a22d7 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1586,6 +1586,7 @@ static void shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone,
         enum lru_list l;
         unsigned long nr_reclaimed = sc->nr_reclaimed;
         unsigned long swap_cluster_max = sc->swap_cluster_max;
+        struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat = get_reclaim_stat(zone, sc);
         int noswap = 0;
 
         /* If we have no swap space, do not bother scanning anon pages. */
@@ -1605,12 +1606,9 @@ static void shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone,
                         scan >>= priority;
                         scan = (scan * percent[file]) / 100;
                 }
-                if (scanning_global_lru(sc))
-                        nr[l] = nr_scan_try_batch(scan,
-                                                  &zone->lru[l].nr_saved_scan,
-                                                  swap_cluster_max);
-                else
-                        nr[l] = scan;
+                nr[l] = nr_scan_try_batch(scan,
+                                          &reclaim_stat->nr_saved_scan[l],
+                                          swap_cluster_max);
         }
 
         while (nr[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] || nr[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] ||
@@ -2220,6 +2218,7 @@ static void shrink_all_zones(unsigned long nr_pages, int prio,
 {
         struct zone *zone;
         unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
+        struct zone_reclaim_stat *reclaim_stat;
 
         for_each_populated_zone(zone) {
                 enum lru_list l;
@@ -2236,11 +2235,14 @@ static void shrink_all_zones(unsigned long nr_pages, int prio,
                                                 l == LRU_ACTIVE_FILE))
                                 continue;
 
-                        zone->lru[l].nr_saved_scan += (lru_pages >> prio) + 1;
-                        if (zone->lru[l].nr_saved_scan >= nr_pages || pass > 3) {
+                        reclaim_stat = get_reclaim_stat(zone, sc);
+                        reclaim_stat->nr_saved_scan[l] +=
+                                                (lru_pages >> prio) + 1;
+                        if (reclaim_stat->nr_saved_scan[l]
+                                                >= nr_pages || pass > 3) {
                                 unsigned long nr_to_scan;
 
-                                zone->lru[l].nr_saved_scan = 0;
+                                reclaim_stat->nr_saved_scan[l] = 0;
                                 nr_to_scan = min(nr_pages, lru_pages);
                                 nr_reclaimed += shrink_list(l, nr_to_scan, zone,
                                                                 sc, prio);