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| author | Mel Gorman <[email protected]> | 2013-07-03 15:01:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2013-07-03 16:07:28 -0700 |
| commit | 9aa41348a8d11427feec350b21dcdd4330fd20c4 (patch) | |
| tree | 139e778569caa811bcfe904c03bb5fcf784dd258 | |
| parent | 2ab44f434586b8ccb11f781b4c2730492e6628f5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-9aa41348a8d11427feec350b21dcdd4330fd20c4.tar.gz | |
mm: vmscan: do not allow kswapd to scan at maximum priority
Page reclaim at priority 0 will scan the entire LRU as priority 0 is
considered to be a near OOM condition. Kswapd can reach priority 0
quite easily if it is encountering a large number of pages it cannot
reclaim such as pages under writeback. When this happens, kswapd
reclaims very aggressively even though there may be no real risk of
allocation failure or OOM.
This patch prevents kswapd reaching priority 0 and trying to reclaim the
world. Direct reclaimers will still reach priority 0 in the event of an
OOM situation.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <[email protected]>
Cc: dormando <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index cd0980393bac76..1505c573719d9c 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2929,7 +2929,7 @@ static unsigned long balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, */ if (raise_priority || !sc.nr_reclaimed) sc.priority--; - } while (sc.priority >= 0 && + } while (sc.priority >= 1 && !pgdat_balanced(pgdat, order, *classzone_idx)); out: |