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vmscan: clip swap_cluster_max in shrink_all_memory()
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:19:35 +0000 (15:19 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:59:12 +0000 (08:59 -0700)
commit9786bf841da57fac3457a1dac41acb4c1f2eced6
tree763cb1dd3f6a3c4faf1c31b44ad2e7bef0d206d2
parentd979677c4c02f0a72db5a03ecd8184bd9d6695c8
vmscan: clip swap_cluster_max in shrink_all_memory()

shrink_inactive_list() scans in sc->swap_cluster_max chunks until it hits
the scan limit it was passed.

shrink_inactive_list()
{
do {
isolate_pages(swap_cluster_max)
shrink_page_list()
} while (nr_scanned < max_scan);
}

This assumes that swap_cluster_max is not bigger than the scan limit
because the latter is checked only after at least one iteration.

In shrink_all_memory() sc->swap_cluster_max is initialized to the overall
reclaim goal in the beginning but not decreased while reclaim is making
progress which leads to subsequent calls to shrink_inactive_list()
reclaiming way too much in the one iteration that is done unconditionally.

Set sc->swap_cluster_max always to the proper goal before doing
  shrink_all_zones()
    shrink_list()
      shrink_inactive_list().

While the current shrink_all_memory() happily reclaims more than actually
requested, this patch fixes it to never exceed the goal:

unpatched
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=13356
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=19711
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10289
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=17306
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10700
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10004
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=13301
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10976
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10605
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10088
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=15000

patched
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=9599
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=8476
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=8326
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=9919
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=9624
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000
   wanted=8500 reclaimed=8092
   wanted=316 reclaimed=316

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@crca.org.au>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c