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/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Yang Shi <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Xu <[email protected]>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Thelen <[email protected]>
Cc: Keith Busch <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index b0970769b100..43289f5f8488 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -524,8 +524,13 @@ static long add_nr_deferred(long nr, struct shrinker *shrinker,
 
 static bool can_demote(int nid, struct scan_control *sc)
 {
-	if (sc && sc->no_demotion)
-		return false;
+	if (sc) {
+		if (sc->no_demotion)
+			return false;
+		/* It is pointless to do demotion in memcg reclaim */
+		if (cgroup_reclaim(sc))
+			return false;
+	}
 	if (next_demotion_node(nid) == NUMA_NO_NODE)
 		return false;