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mm: vmscan: convert global reclaim to per-memcg LRU lists
authorJohannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Thu, 8 Dec 2011 04:42:42 +0000 (15:42 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:43:30 +0000 (17:43 +1100)
commit8c9815dc60dfa7acc696d6085a1929a3c0bea79f
treef7e5d98f1e3f300b66497ae0c92c0ce8f28b4a59
parent9e01eb668305bb1efcae91b3c3f232f7d51554ec
mm: vmscan: convert global reclaim to per-memcg LRU lists

The global per-zone LRU lists are about to go away on memcg-enabled
kernels, global reclaim must be able to find its pages on the per-memcg
LRU lists.

Since the LRU pages of a zone are distributed over all existing memory
cgroups, a scan target for a zone is complete when all memory cgroups are
scanned for their proportional share of a zone's memory.

The forced scanning of small scan targets from kswapd is limited to zones
marked unreclaimable, otherwise kswapd can quickly overreclaim by
force-scanning the LRU lists of multiple memory cgroups.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c