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author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-05-22 23:27:17 +0900 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-05-22 23:27:17 +0900 |
commit | 69c1f05379a34786da96d0fdedc111cdcdecdf6f (patch) | |
tree | 74a0cde11fbc619c227af89e0757036ab20323d0 /mm/vmscan.c | |
parent | 007dfe5ad6d039df784b44285bae89654eab3258 (diff) | |
parent | 4b660a7f5c8099d88d1a43d8ae138965112592c7 (diff) |
Merge 3.15-rc6 into staging-next.
This resolves the conflicts in the files:
drivers/iio/adc/Kconfig
drivers/staging/rtl8723au/os_dep/usb_ops_linux.c
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 3f56c8deb3c..32c661d66a4 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1916,6 +1916,24 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc, get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE); /* + * Prevent the reclaimer from falling into the cache trap: as + * cache pages start out inactive, every cache fault will tip + * the scan balance towards the file LRU. And as the file LRU + * shrinks, so does the window for rotation from references. + * This means we have a runaway feedback loop where a tiny + * thrashing file LRU becomes infinitely more attractive than + * anon pages. Try to detect this based on file LRU size. + */ + if (global_reclaim(sc)) { + unsigned long free = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES); + + if (unlikely(file + free <= high_wmark_pages(zone))) { + scan_balance = SCAN_ANON; + goto out; + } + } + + /* * There is enough inactive page cache, do not reclaim * anything from the anonymous working set right now. */ |