memory controller: soft limit reclaim on contention

Implement reclaim from groups over their soft limit

Permit reclaim from memory cgroups on contention (via the direct reclaim
path).

memory cgroup soft limit reclaim finds the group that exceeds its soft
limit by the largest number of pages and reclaims pages from it and then
reinserts the cgroup into its correct place in the rbtree.

Add additional checks to mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim() to detect long
loops in case all swap is turned off.  The code has been refactored and
the loop check (loop < 2) has been enhanced for soft limits.  For soft
limits, we try to do more targetted reclaim.  Instead of bailing out after
two loops, the routine now reclaims memory proportional to the size by
which the soft limit is exceeded.  The proportion has been empirically
determined.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: fix softlimit css refcnt handling]
[nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: refcount of the "victim" should be decremented before exiting the loop]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 44 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 613e89f471d9..2423782214ab 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1836,11 +1836,45 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order,
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
 
+unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
+						gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
+						unsigned int swappiness,
+						struct zone *zone, int nid)
+{
+	struct scan_control sc = {
+		.may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
+		.may_unmap = 1,
+		.may_swap = !noswap,
+		.swap_cluster_max = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
+		.swappiness = swappiness,
+		.order = 0,
+		.mem_cgroup = mem,
+		.isolate_pages = mem_cgroup_isolate_pages,
+	};
+	nodemask_t nm  = nodemask_of_node(nid);
+
+	sc.gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) |
+			(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
+	sc.nodemask = &nm;
+	sc.nr_reclaimed = 0;
+	sc.nr_scanned = 0;
+	/*
+	 * NOTE: Although we can get the priority field, using it
+	 * here is not a good idea, since it limits the pages we can scan.
+	 * if we don't reclaim here, the shrink_zone from balance_pgdat
+	 * will pick up pages from other mem cgroup's as well. We hack
+	 * the priority and make it zero.
+	 */
+	shrink_zone(0, zone, &sc);
+	return sc.nr_reclaimed;
+}
+
 unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *mem_cont,
 					   gfp_t gfp_mask,
 					   bool noswap,
 					   unsigned int swappiness)
 {
+	struct zonelist *zonelist;
 	struct scan_control sc = {
 		.may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
 		.may_unmap = 1,
@@ -1852,7 +1886,6 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *mem_cont,
 		.isolate_pages = mem_cgroup_isolate_pages,
 		.nodemask = NULL, /* we don't care the placement */
 	};
-	struct zonelist *zonelist;
 
 	sc.gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) |
 			(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
@@ -1974,6 +2007,7 @@ loop_again:
 		for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) {
 			struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
 			int nr_slab;
+			int nid, zid;
 
 			if (!populated_zone(zone))
 				continue;
@@ -1988,6 +2022,15 @@ loop_again:
 			temp_priority[i] = priority;
 			sc.nr_scanned = 0;
 			note_zone_scanning_priority(zone, priority);
+
+			nid = pgdat->node_id;
+			zid = zone_idx(zone);
+			/*
+			 * Call soft limit reclaim before calling shrink_zone.
+			 * For now we ignore the return value
+			 */
+			mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(zone, order, sc.gfp_mask,
+							nid, zid);
 			/*
 			 * We put equal pressure on every zone, unless one
 			 * zone has way too many pages free already.