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vmscan: split LRU lists into anon & file sets
authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:26:32 +0000 (20:26 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:50:25 +0000 (08:50 -0700)
commit4f98a2fee8acdb4ac84545df98cccecfd130f8db
tree035a2937f4c3e2f7b4269412041c073ac646937c
parentb2e185384f534781fd22f5ce170b2ad26f97df70
vmscan: split LRU lists into anon & file sets

Split the LRU lists in two, one set for pages that are backed by real file
systems ("file") and one for pages that are backed by memory and swap
("anon").  The latter includes tmpfs.

The advantage of doing this is that the VM will not have to scan over lots
of anonymous pages (which we generally do not want to swap out), just to
find the page cache pages that it should evict.

This patch has the infrastructure and a basic policy to balance how much
we scan the anon lists and how much we scan the file lists.  The big
policy changes are in separate patches.

[lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: collect lru meminfo statistics from correct offset]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: prevent incorrect oom under split_lru]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix pagevec_move_tail() doesn't treat unevictable page]
[hugh@veritas.com: memcg swapbacked pages active]
[hugh@veritas.com: splitlru: BDI_CAP_SWAP_BACKED]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix /proc/vmstat units]
[nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: memcg: fix handling of shmem migration]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: adjust Quicklists field of /proc/meminfo]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix style issue of get_scan_ratio()]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
25 files changed:
drivers/base/node.c
fs/cifs/file.c
fs/nfs/dir.c
fs/ntfs/file.c
fs/proc/proc_misc.c
fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
include/linux/backing-dev.h
include/linux/memcontrol.h
include/linux/mm_inline.h
include/linux/mmzone.h
include/linux/pagevec.h
include/linux/swap.h
include/linux/vmstat.h
mm/filemap.c
mm/hugetlb.c
mm/memcontrol.c
mm/memory.c
mm/page-writeback.c
mm/page_alloc.c
mm/readahead.c
mm/shmem.c
mm/swap.c
mm/swap_state.c
mm/vmscan.c
mm/vmstat.c