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    mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node · 599d0c95
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    This moves the LRU lists from the zone to the node and related data such
    as counters, tracing, congestion tracking and writeback tracking.
    
    Unfortunately, due to reclaim and compaction retry logic, it is
    necessary to account for the number of LRU pages on both zone and node
    logic.  Most reclaim logic is based on the node counters but the retry
    logic uses the zone counters which do not distinguish inactive and
    active sizes.  It would be possible to leave the LRU counters on a
    per-zone basis but it's a heavier calculation across multiple cache
    lines that is much more frequent than the retry checks.
    
    Other than the LRU counters, this is mostly a mechanical patch but note
    that it introduces a number of anomalies.  For example, the scans are
    per-zone but using per-node counters.  We also mark a node as congested
    when a zone is congested.  This causes weird problems that are fixed
    later but is easier to review.
    
    In the event that there is excessive overhead on 32-bit systems due to
    the nodes being on LRU then there are two potential solutions
    
    1. Long-term isolation of highmem pages when reclaim is lowmem
    
       When pages are skipped, they are immediately added back onto the LRU
       list. If lowmem reclaim persisted for long periods of time, the same
       highmem pages get continually scanned. The idea would be that lowmem
       keeps those pages on a separate list until a reclaim for highmem pages
       arrives that splices the highmem pages back onto the LRU. It potentially
       could be implemented similar to the UNEVICTABLE list.
    
       That would reduce the skip rate with the potential corner case is that
       highmem pages have to be scanned and reclaimed to free lowmem slab pages.
    
    2. Linear scan lowmem pages if the initial LRU shrink fails
    
       This will break LRU ordering but may be preferable and faster during
       memory pressure than skipping LRU pages.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-4-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
    Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
    Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
    Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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