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| author | Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> | 2009-12-14 17:59:48 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-12-15 08:53:21 -0800 |
| commit | b39415b2731d7dec5e612d2d12595da82399eedf (patch) | |
| tree | a8c59b1bc820d643d2e969f866a54147d7015c2e /mm | |
| parent | 8aa043d74559556a661cb2eb6e64497eec86ec77 (diff) | |
vmscan: do not evict inactive pages when skipping an active list scan
In AIM7 runs, recent kernels start swapping out anonymous pages well
before they should. This is due to shrink_list falling through to
shrink_inactive_list if !inactive_anon_is_low(zone, sc), when all we
really wanted to do is pre-age some anonymous pages to give them extra
time to be referenced while on the inactive list.
The obvious fix is to make sure that shrink_list does not fall through to
scanning/reclaiming inactive pages when we called it to scan one of the
active lists.
This change should be safe because the loop in shrink_zone ensures that we
will still shrink the anon and file inactive lists whenever we should.
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: inactive_file_is_low() should be inactive_anon_is_low()]
Reported-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 2ef59d5b16a6..04658189b9a5 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1463,20 +1463,26 @@ static int inactive_file_is_low(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc) return low; } +static int inactive_list_is_low(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc, + int file) +{ + if (file) + return inactive_file_is_low(zone, sc); + else + return inactive_anon_is_low(zone, sc); +} + static unsigned long shrink_list(enum lru_list lru, unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc, int priority) { int file = is_file_lru(lru); - if (lru == LRU_ACTIVE_FILE && inactive_file_is_low(zone, sc)) { - shrink_active_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc, priority, file); + if (is_active_lru(lru)) { + if (inactive_list_is_low(zone, sc, file)) + shrink_active_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc, priority, file); return 0; } - if (lru == LRU_ACTIVE_ANON && inactive_anon_is_low(zone, sc)) { - shrink_active_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc, priority, file); - return 0; - } return shrink_inactive_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc, priority, file); } |