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diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 349797ba4bac..089e943c4d38 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1527,7 +1527,6 @@ int zone_reclaim_mode __read_mostly;
#define RECLAIM_ZONE (1<<0) /* Run shrink_cache on the zone */
#define RECLAIM_WRITE (1<<1) /* Writeout pages during reclaim */
#define RECLAIM_SWAP (1<<2) /* Swap pages out during reclaim */
-#define RECLAIM_SLAB (1<<3) /* Do a global slab shrink if the zone is out of memory */
/*
* Priority for ZONE_RECLAIM. This determines the fraction of pages
@@ -1543,6 +1542,12 @@ int zone_reclaim_mode __read_mostly;
int sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio = 1;
/*
+ * If the number of slab pages in a zone grows beyond this percentage then
+ * slab reclaim needs to occur.
+ */
+int sysctl_min_slab_ratio = 5;
+
+/*
* Try to free up some pages from this zone through reclaim.
*/
static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
@@ -1573,29 +1578,37 @@ static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab = 0;
p->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;
- /*
- * Free memory by calling shrink zone with increasing priorities
- * until we have enough memory freed.
- */
- priority = ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY;
- do {
- nr_reclaimed += shrink_zone(priority, zone, &sc);
- priority--;
- } while (priority >= 0 && nr_reclaimed < nr_pages);
+ if (zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_PAGES) -
+ zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_MAPPED) >
+ zone->min_unmapped_pages) {
+ /*
+ * Free memory by calling shrink zone with increasing
+ * priorities until we have enough memory freed.
+ */
+ priority = ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY;
+ do {
+ nr_reclaimed += shrink_zone(priority, zone, &sc);
+ priority--;
+ } while (priority >= 0 && nr_reclaimed < nr_pages);
+ }
- if (nr_reclaimed < nr_pages && (zone_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_SLAB)) {
+ if (zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) > zone->min_slab_pages) {
/*
* shrink_slab() does not currently allow us to determine how
- * many pages were freed in this zone. So we just shake the slab
- * a bit and then go off node for this particular allocation
- * despite possibly having freed enough memory to allocate in
- * this zone. If we freed local memory then the next
- * allocations will be local again.
+ * many pages were freed in this zone. So we take the current
+ * number of slab pages and shake the slab until it is reduced
+ * by the same nr_pages that we used for reclaiming unmapped
+ * pages.
*
- * shrink_slab will free memory on all zones and may take
- * a long time.
+ * Note that shrink_slab will free memory on all zones and may
+ * take a long time.
*/
- shrink_slab(sc.nr_scanned, gfp_mask, order);
+ unsigned long limit = zone_page_state(zone,
+ NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) - nr_pages;
+
+ while (shrink_slab(sc.nr_scanned, gfp_mask, order) &&
+ zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE) > limit)
+ ;
}
p->reclaim_state = NULL;
@@ -1609,7 +1622,8 @@ int zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
int node_id;
/*
- * Zone reclaim reclaims unmapped file backed pages.
+ * Zone reclaim reclaims unmapped file backed pages and
+ * slab pages if we are over the defined limits.
*
* A small portion of unmapped file backed pages is needed for
* file I/O otherwise pages read by file I/O will be immediately
@@ -1618,7 +1632,9 @@ int zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
* unmapped file backed pages.
*/
if (zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_PAGES) -
- zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_MAPPED) <= zone->min_unmapped_pages)
+ zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_MAPPED) <= zone->min_unmapped_pages
+ && zone_page_state(zone, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE)
+ <= zone->min_slab_pages)
return 0;
/*