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-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 665b090b6c72..060e4c191403 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2399,6 +2399,7 @@ loop_again:
for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) {
struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
int nr_slab;
+ unsigned long balance_gap;
if (!populated_zone(zone))
continue;
@@ -2415,11 +2416,20 @@ loop_again:
mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(zone, order, sc.gfp_mask);
/*
- * We put equal pressure on every zone, unless one
- * zone has way too many pages free already.
+ * We put equal pressure on every zone, unless
+ * one zone has way too many pages free
+ * already. The "too many pages" is defined
+ * as the high wmark plus a "gap" where the
+ * gap is either the low watermark or 1%
+ * of the zone, whichever is smaller.
*/
+ balance_gap = min(low_wmark_pages(zone),
+ (zone->present_pages +
+ KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO-1) /
+ KSWAPD_ZONE_BALANCE_GAP_RATIO);
if (!zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order,
- 8*high_wmark_pages(zone), end_zone, 0))
+ high_wmark_pages(zone) + balance_gap,
+ end_zone, 0))
shrink_zone(priority, zone, &sc);
reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab = 0;
nr_slab = shrink_slab(sc.nr_scanned, GFP_KERNEL,