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mm: vmscan: do not allow kswapd to scan at maximum priority
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:05:59 +0000 (10:05 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:13:00 +0000 (17:13 +1000)
commitc42e10562e7462ee4fc9c8ad2d568abc97efe272
tree202af01e21a6341ad9cda151390600f66d80f371
parentae6c369330cd484c9f1403d2560f9b5418cb0ab1
mm: vmscan: do not allow kswapd to scan at maximum priority

Page reclaim at priority 0 will scan the entire LRU as priority 0 is
considered to be a near OOM condition.  Kswapd can reach priority 0 quite
easily if it is encountering a large number of pages it cannot reclaim
such as pages under writeback.  When this happens, kswapd reclaims very
aggressively even though there may be no real risk of allocation failure
or OOM.

This patch prevents kswapd reaching priority 0 and trying to reclaim the
world.  Direct reclaimers will still reach priority 0 in the event of an
OOM situation.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: 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