To avoid excessive reclaim, we give up rebalancing for high order allocations right after reclaiming enough pages. Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index ee7e531..d080fb2 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -3159,8 +3159,7 @@ static int balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx) do { bool raise_priority = true; - - sc.nr_reclaimed = 0; + unsigned long reclaimed_pages = sc.nr_reclaimed; /* * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine exceeds the @@ -3254,7 +3253,7 @@ static int balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx) * Raise priority if scanning rate is too low or there was no * progress in reclaiming pages */ - if (raise_priority || !sc.nr_reclaimed) + if (raise_priority || sc.nr_reclaimed == reclaimed_pages) sc.priority--; } while (sc.priority >= 1); -- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>