]> git.karo-electronics.de Git - linux-beck.git/commit
memcg: move memcg reclaimable page into tail of inactive list
authorMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:32:53 +0000 (16:32 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:44:03 +0000 (17:44 -0700)
commit3f58a82943337fb6e79acfa5346719a97d3c0b98
tree667441ac13c845edac93c937d0baba03a2021ea8
parent315601809d124d046abd6c3ffa346d0dbd7aa29d
memcg: move memcg reclaimable page into tail of inactive list

The rotate_reclaimable_page function moves just written out pages, which
the VM wanted to reclaim, to the end of the inactive list.  That way the
VM will find those pages first next time it needs to free memory.

This patch applies the rule in memcg.  It can help to prevent unnecessary
working page eviction of memcg.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/memcontrol.h
mm/memcontrol.c
mm/swap.c