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author | Mel Gorman <[email protected]> | 2016-07-28 15:45:59 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2016-07-28 16:07:41 -0700 |
commit | 86c79f6b5426ce118d32c73fa9e328f0a86ab590 (patch) | |
tree | 8cc32bcea6199c34326976a043b49c4df82a5851 /lib/cpu-notifier-error-inject.c | |
parent | 6256c6b499a1689d62ddfcb38d8048f9cd177070 (diff) |
mm: vmscan: do not reclaim from kswapd if there is any eligible zone
kswapd scans from highest to lowest for a zone that requires balancing.
This was necessary when reclaim was per-zone to fairly age pages on
lower zones. Now that we are reclaiming on a per-node basis, any
eligible zone can be used and pages will still be aged fairly. This
patch avoids reclaiming excessively unless buffer_heads are over the
limit and it's necessary to reclaim from a higher zone than requested by
the waker of kswapd to relieve low memory pressure.
[[email protected]: Force kswapd reclaim no more than needed]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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