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mm: vmscan: convert global reclaim to per-memcg LRU lists
authorJohannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:56 +0000 (15:11 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:14:03 +0000 (15:14 +1100)
commite3e36b7fe08e1ffe172110a3d633b839454e0205
treeabf333cef1f8b828c5bd8b5988afc4bd0dbafe22
parent47d9efcdaf9334dcca9138ece857a0339e65fd65
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