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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 930f7c67a9c1..12a69e6c10ba 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2057,10 +2057,16 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, int swappiness, } /* - * There is enough inactive page cache, do not reclaim - * anything from the anonymous working set right now. + * If there is enough inactive page cache, i.e. if the size of the + * inactive list is greater than that of the active list *and* the + * inactive list actually has some pages to scan on this priority, we + * do not reclaim anything from the anonymous working set right now. + * Without the second condition we could end up never scanning an + * lruvec even if it has plenty of old anonymous pages unless the + * system is under heavy pressure. */ - if (!inactive_file_is_low(lruvec)) { + if (!inactive_file_is_low(lruvec) && + get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE) >> sc->priority) { scan_balance = SCAN_FILE; goto out; } |