From e0f79b8f1f3394bb344b7b83d6f121ac2af327de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Weiner Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:26:55 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] vmscan: don't accumulate scan pressure on unrelated lists During each reclaim scan we accumulate scan pressure on unrelated lists which will result in bogus scans and unwanted reclaims eventually. Scanning lists with few reclaim candidates results in a lot of rotation and therefor also disturbs the list balancing, putting even more pressure on the wrong lists. In a test-case with much streaming IO, and therefor a crowded inactive file page list, swapping started because a) anon pages were reclaimed after swap_cluster_max reclaim invocations -- nr_scan of this list has just accumulated b) active file pages were scanned because *their* nr_scan has also accumulated through the same logic. And this in return created a lot of rotation for file pages and resulted in a decrease of file list priority, again increasing the pressure on anon pages. The result was an evicted working set of anon pages while there were tons of inactive file pages that should have been taken instead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmscan.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index ca64e3e0c51..412d7872fc7 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1413,16 +1413,13 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone, if (scan_global_lru(sc)) { int file = is_file_lru(l); int scan; - /* - * Add one to nr_to_scan just to make sure that the - * kernel will slowly sift through each list. - */ + scan = zone_page_state(zone, NR_LRU_BASE + l); if (priority) { scan >>= priority; scan = (scan * percent[file]) / 100; } - zone->lru[l].nr_scan += scan + 1; + zone->lru[l].nr_scan += scan; nr[l] = zone->lru[l].nr_scan; if (nr[l] >= sc->swap_cluster_max) zone->lru[l].nr_scan = 0; -- 2.41.1