khugepaged: drain all LRU caches before scanning pages

Having a page in LRU add cache offsets page refcount and gives
false-negative on PageLRU().  It reduces collapse success rate.

Drain all LRU add caches before scanning.  It happens relatively rare and
should not disturb the system too much.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Zi Yan <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Yang Shi <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index c436fd390296..8a74b9705a65 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -2079,6 +2079,8 @@ static void khugepaged_do_scan(void)
 
 	barrier(); /* write khugepaged_pages_to_scan to local stack */
 
+	lru_add_drain_all();
+
 	while (progress < pages) {
 		if (!khugepaged_prealloc_page(&hpage, &wait))
 			break;