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mm: vmscan: obey proportional scanning requirements for kswapd
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Thu, 23 May 2013 00:37:16 +0000 (10:37 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 27 May 2013 06:09:04 +0000 (16:09 +1000)
commit9467303e56c129dab145e163b5574ddb1eaa51bb
treee8eca79778949a84d8cb6e74b6444e86d4948ca9
parent75efbb30eb3c360df99db3aa0e8a66cbd35abd71
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>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c