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mm: vmscan: obey proportional scanning requirements for kswapd
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:05:58 +0000 (10:05 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:13:00 +0000 (17:13 +1000)
commit157112eb176fb247bad2e6353afced0e910a13d6
tree57ca5a97b6838d720ad396e5fe5f5ecb6a14a39e
parentee47d51c662b45fe696b4d58c188ca2682c03257
mm: vmscan: obey proportional scanning requirements for kswapd

Simplistically, the anon and file LRU lists are scanned proportionally
depending on the value of vm.swappiness although there are other factors
taken into account by get_scan_count().  The patch "mm: vmscan: Limit the
number of pages kswapd reclaims" limits the number of pages kswapd
reclaims but it breaks this proportional scanning and may evenly shrink
anon/file LRUs regardless of vm.swappiness.

This patch preserves the proportional scanning and reclaim.  It does mean
that kswapd will reclaim more than requested but the number of pages will
be related to the high watermark.

[mhocko@suse.cz: Correct proportional reclaim for memcg and simplify]
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Recalculate scan based on target]
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: Account for already scanned pages properly]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c