memcg: count the soft_limit reclaim in global background reclaim

The global kswapd scans per-zone LRU and reclaims pages regardless of the
cgroup. It breaks memory isolation since one cgroup can end up reclaiming
pages from another cgroup. Instead we should rely on memcg-aware target
reclaim including per-memcg kswapd and soft_limit hierarchical reclaim under
memory pressure.

In the global background reclaim, we do soft reclaim before scanning the
per-zone LRU. However, the return value is ignored. This patch is the first
step to skip shrink_zone() if soft_limit reclaim does enough work.

This is part of the effort which tries to reduce reclaiming pages in global
LRU in memcg. The per-memcg background reclaim patchset further enhances the
per-cgroup targetting reclaim, which I should have V4 posted shortly.

Try running multiple memory intensive workloads within seperate memcgs. Watch
the counters of soft_steal in memory.stat.

  $ cat /dev/cgroup/A/memory.stat | grep 'soft'
  soft_steal 240000
  soft_scan 240000
  total_soft_steal 240000
  total_soft_scan 240000

This patch:

In the global background reclaim, we do soft reclaim before scanning the
per-zone LRU.  However, the return value is ignored.

We would like to skip shrink_zone() if soft_limit reclaim does enough
work.  Also, we need to make the memory pressure balanced across per-memcg
zones, like the logic vm-core.  This patch is the first step where we
start with counting the nr_scanned and nr_reclaimed from soft_limit
reclaim into the global scan_control.

Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Acked-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, 13 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 7e01161..9ce6ec8 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2171,9 +2171,11 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order,
 unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
 						gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap,
 						unsigned int swappiness,
-						struct zone *zone)
+						struct zone *zone,
+						unsigned long *nr_scanned)
 {
 	struct scan_control sc = {
+		.nr_scanned = 0,
 		.nr_to_reclaim = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
 		.may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
 		.may_unmap = 1,
@@ -2182,6 +2184,7 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
 		.order = 0,
 		.mem_cgroup = mem,
 	};
+
 	sc.gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) |
 			(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
 
@@ -2200,6 +2203,7 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
 
 	trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_end(sc.nr_reclaimed);
 
+	*nr_scanned = sc.nr_scanned;
 	return sc.nr_reclaimed;
 }
 
@@ -2347,6 +2351,8 @@ static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order,
 	int end_zone = 0;	/* Inclusive.  0 = ZONE_DMA */
 	unsigned long total_scanned;
 	struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;
+	unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed;
+	unsigned long nr_soft_scanned;
 	struct scan_control sc = {
 		.gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
 		.may_unmap = 1,
@@ -2439,11 +2445,15 @@ loop_again:
 
 			sc.nr_scanned = 0;
 
+			nr_soft_scanned = 0;
 			/*
 			 * 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);
+			nr_soft_reclaimed = mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(zone,
+							order, sc.gfp_mask,
+							&nr_soft_scanned);
+			sc.nr_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
+			total_scanned += nr_soft_scanned;
 
 			/*
 			 * We put equal pressure on every zone, unless