mm/vmscan: never demote for memcg reclaim
authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 2 Sep 2021 21:59:30 +0000 (14:59 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 3 Sep 2021 16:58:16 +0000 (09:58 -0700)
commit3a235693d3930e1276c8d9cc0ca5807ef292cf0a
tree14f7ca5cdc45cdfc56fb6526beb7fd3801a2021c
parenta2a36488a61cefe3129295c6e75b3987b9d7fd13
mm/vmscan: never demote for memcg reclaim

Global reclaim aims to reduce the amount of memory used on a given node or
set of nodes.  Migrating pages to another node serves this purpose.

memcg reclaim is different.  Its goal is to reduce the total memory
consumption of the entire memcg, across all nodes.  Migration does not
assist memcg reclaim because it just moves page contents between nodes
rather than actually reducing memory consumption.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210715055145.195411-9-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c