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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 99b3ac7771ad..2cff0d491c6d 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1443,25 +1443,11 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec, * as there is no guarantee the dirtying process is throttled in the * same way balance_dirty_pages() manages. * - * This scales the number of dirty pages that must be under writeback - * before a zone gets flagged ZONE_WRITEBACK. It is a simple backoff - * function that has the most effect in the range DEF_PRIORITY to - * DEF_PRIORITY-2 which is the priority reclaim is considered to be - * in trouble and reclaim is considered to be in trouble. - * - * DEF_PRIORITY 100% isolated pages must be PageWriteback to throttle - * DEF_PRIORITY-1 50% must be PageWriteback - * DEF_PRIORITY-2 25% must be PageWriteback, kswapd in trouble - * ... - * DEF_PRIORITY-6 For SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX isolated pages, throttle if any - * isolated page is PageWriteback - * * Once a zone is flagged ZONE_WRITEBACK, kswapd will count the number * of pages under pages flagged for immediate reclaim and stall if any * are encountered in the nr_immediate check below. */ - if (nr_writeback && nr_writeback >= - (nr_taken >> (DEF_PRIORITY - sc->priority))) + if (nr_writeback && nr_writeback == nr_taken) zone_set_flag(zone, ZONE_WRITEBACK); /* @@ -2361,8 +2347,10 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, aborted_reclaim = shrink_zones(zonelist, sc); /* - * Don't shrink slabs when reclaiming memory from - * over limit cgroups + * Don't shrink slabs when reclaiming memory from over limit + * cgroups but do shrink slab at least once when aborting + * reclaim for compaction to avoid unevenly scanning file/anon + * LRU pages over slab pages. */ if (global_reclaim(sc)) { unsigned long lru_pages = 0; @@ -2404,7 +2392,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES); sc->may_writepage = 1; } - } while (--sc->priority >= 0); + } while (--sc->priority >= 0 && !aborted_reclaim); out: delayacct_freepages_end(); |