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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-05-24 08:32:30 +0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-05-24 08:32:30 +0400 |
| commit | 54e5c4def0614ab540fbdf68e45342a4af141702 (patch) | |
| tree | 95a2f61c72336932e83d9e4180cd9739106d624b /mm/vmscan.c | |
| parent | be65de7174123e02477bd488db1a657caf0f9947 (diff) | |
| parent | 1ee1ceafb572f1a925809168267a7962a4289de8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-54e5c4def0614ab540fbdf68e45342a4af141702.tar.xz | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts:
drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_msgdma.c
drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_sgdma.c
net/ipv6/xfrm6_output.c
Several cases of overlapping changes.
The xfrm6_output.c has a bug fix which overlaps the renaming
of skb->local_df to skb->ignore_df.
In the Altera TSE driver cases, the register access cleanups
in net-next overlapped with bug fixes done in net.
Similarly a bug fix to send ALB packets in the bonding driver using
the right source address overlaps with cleanups in net-next.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 3f56c8deb3c0..32c661d66a45 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1916,6 +1916,24 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc, get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE); /* + * Prevent the reclaimer from falling into the cache trap: as + * cache pages start out inactive, every cache fault will tip + * the scan balance towards the file LRU. And as the file LRU + * shrinks, so does the window for rotation from references. + * This means we have a runaway feedback loop where a tiny + * thrashing file LRU becomes infinitely more attractive than + * anon pages. Try to detect this based on file LRU size. + */ + if (global_reclaim(sc)) { + unsigned long free = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES); + + if (unlikely(file + free <= high_wmark_pages(zone))) { + scan_balance = SCAN_ANON; + goto out; + } + } + + /* * There is enough inactive page cache, do not reclaim * anything from the anonymous working set right now. */ |