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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 7f3096137b8..e73d0206ddd 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1177,7 +1177,11 @@ int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page) } /* - * Are there way too many processes in the direct reclaim path already? + * A direct reclaimer may isolate SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages from the LRU list and + * then get resheduled. When there are massive number of tasks doing page + * allocation, such sleeping direct reclaimers may keep piling up on each CPU, + * the LRU list will go small and be scanned faster than necessary, leading to + * unnecessary swapping, thrashing and OOM. */ static int too_many_isolated(struct zone *zone, int file, struct scan_control *sc) |