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author | 2009-09-21 17:03:11 -0700 | |
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committer | 2009-09-22 07:17:39 -0700 | |
commit | f86296317434b21585e229f6c49a33cb9ebab4d3 (patch) | |
tree | d4fb05d4aee1a8e373ec053e7316dc9847b2c417 /mm/page_alloc.c | |
parent | oom: move oom_killer_enable()/oom_killer_disable to where they belong (diff) | |
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mm: do batched scans for mem_cgroup
For mem_cgroup, shrink_zone() may call shrink_list() with nr_to_scan=1, in
which case shrink_list() _still_ calls isolate_pages() with the much
larger SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX. It effectively scales up the inactive list scan
rate by up to 32 times.
For example, with 16k inactive pages and DEF_PRIORITY=12, (16k >> 12)=4.
So when shrink_zone() expects to scan 4 pages in the active/inactive list,
the active list will be scanned 4 pages, while the inactive list will be
(over) scanned SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX=32 pages in effect. And that could break
the balance between the two lists.
It can further impact the scan of anon active list, due to the anon
active/inactive ratio rebalance logic in balance_pgdat()/shrink_zone():
inactive anon list over scanned => inactive_anon_is_low() == TRUE
=> shrink_active_list()
=> active anon list over scanned
So the end result may be
- anon inactive => over scanned
- anon active => over scanned (maybe not as much)
- file inactive => over scanned
- file active => under scanned (relatively)
The accesses to nr_saved_scan are not lock protected and so not 100%
accurate, however we can tolerate small errors and the resulted small
imbalanced scan rates between zones.
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 770f011e1c12..84d9da1e8f4c 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -3809,7 +3809,7 @@ static void __paginginit free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat, zone_pcp_init(zone); for_each_lru(l) { INIT_LIST_HEAD(&zone->lru[l].list); - zone->lru[l].nr_saved_scan = 0; + zone->reclaim_stat.nr_saved_scan[l] = 0; } zone->reclaim_stat.recent_rotated[0] = 0; zone->reclaim_stat.recent_rotated[1] = 0; |