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authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>2009-12-14 17:59:48 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-15 08:53:21 -0800
commitb39415b2731d7dec5e612d2d12595da82399eedf (patch)
treea8c59b1bc820d643d2e969f866a54147d7015c2e /mm
parent8aa043d74559556a661cb2eb6e64497eec86ec77 (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.c18
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);
}