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authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>2012-03-21 16:34:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-21 17:55:00 -0700
commit1480de0340a8d5f094b74d7c4b902456c9a06903 (patch)
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mm: forbid lumpy-reclaim in shrink_active_list()
Reset the reclaim mode in shrink_active_list() to RECLAIM_MODE_SINGLE | RECLAIM_MODE_ASYNC. (sync/async sign is used only in shrink_page_list and does not affect shrink_active_list) Currenly shrink_active_list() sometimes works in lumpy-reclaim mode, if RECLAIM_MODE_LUMPYRECLAIM is left over from an earlier shrink_inactive_list(). Meanwhile, in age_active_anon() sc->reclaim_mode is totally zero. So the current behavior is too complex and confusing, and this looks like bug. In general, shrink_active_list() populates the inactive list for the next shrink_inactive_list(). Lumpy shring_inactive_list() isolates pages around the chosen one from both the active and inactive lists. So, there is no reason for lumpy isolation in shrink_active_list(). See also: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/15/583 Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Proposed-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 55d86c9506f3..49f15ef0a99a 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1690,6 +1690,8 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
lru_add_drain();
+ reset_reclaim_mode(sc);
+
if (!sc->may_unmap)
isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_UNMAPPED;
if (!sc->may_writepage)