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memcg: skip scanning active lists based on individual size
authorJohannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:50 +0000 (11:43 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 07:56:08 +0000 (18:56 +1100)
commit4d544729b3cec39b0a33a924d282d722d2399472
tree93d9507c79b2ceca322dc15afcf2d7077cea4622
parent1ee83ac22f41d85cf793c9d85fec74ce52a72f15
memcg: skip scanning active lists based on individual size

Reclaim decides to skip scanning an active list when the corresponding
inactive list is above a certain size in comparison to leave the assumed
working set alone while there are still enough reclaim candidates around.

The memcg implementation of comparing those lists instead reports whether
the whole memcg is low on the requested type of inactive pages,
considering all nodes and zones.

This can lead to an oversized active list not being scanned because of the
state of the other lists in the memcg, as well as an active list being
scanned while its corresponding inactive list has enough pages.

Not only is this wrong, it's also a scalability hazard, because the global
memory state over all nodes and zones has to be gathered for each memcg
and zone scanned.

Make these calculations purely based on the size of the two LRU lists
that are actually affected by the outcome of the decision.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/memcontrol.h
mm/memcontrol.c
mm/vmscan.c