mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim
The nodes= arg instructs the kernel to only scan the given nodes for proactive reclaim. For example use cases, consider a 2 tier memory system: nodes 0,1 -> top tier nodes 2,3 -> second tier $ echo "1m nodes=0" > memory.reclaim This instructs the kernel to attempt to reclaim 1m memory from node 0. Since node 0 is a top tier node, demotion will be attempted first. This is useful to direct proactive reclaim to specific nodes that are under pressure. $ echo "1m nodes=2,3" > memory.reclaim This instructs the kernel to attempt to reclaim 1m memory in the second tier, since this tier of memory has no demotion targets the memory will be reclaimed. $ echo "1m nodes=0,1" > memory.reclaim Instructs the kernel to reclaim memory from the top tier nodes, which can be desirable according to the userspace policy if there is pressure on the top tiers. Since these nodes have demotion targets, the kernel will attempt demotion first. Since commit 3f1509c5 ("Revert "mm/vmscan: never demote for memcg reclaim""), the proactive reclaim interface memory.reclaim does both reclaim and demotion. Reclaim and demotion incur different latency costs to the jobs in the cgroup. Demoted memory would still be addressable by the userspace at a higher latency, but reclaimed memory would need to incur a pagefault. The 'nodes' arg is useful to allow the userspace to control demotion and reclaim independently according to its policy: if the memory.reclaim is called on a node with demotion targets, it will attempt demotion first; if it is called on a node without demotion targets, it will only attempt reclaim. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221202223533.1785418-1-almasrymina@google.comSigned-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: zefan li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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