On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 17:31:41 +0100
Johannes Weiner <jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We want to prevent floods of used-once file cache pushing us to swap
> out anonymous pages. Never swap under a certain priority level. The
> availability of used-once cache pages should prevent us from reaching
> that threshold.
>
> This is needed because subsequent patches will revert some of the
> mechanisms that tried to prefer file over anon, and this should not
> result in more eager swapping again.
>
> It might also be better to keep the aging machinery going and just not
> swap, rather than staying away from anonymous pages in the first place
> and having less useful age information at the time of swapout.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/vmscan.c | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index a90c603..39d3da3 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -831,6 +831,8 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
> * Try to allocate it some swap space here.
> */
> if (PageAnon(page) && !PageSwapCache(page)) {
> + if (priority >= DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
> + goto keep_locked;
> if (!(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO))
> goto keep_locked;
> if (!add_to_swap(page))
Hm, how about not scanning LRU_ANON rather than checking here ?
Add some bias to get_scan_count() or some..
If you think to need rotation of LRU, only kswapd should do that..
Thanks,
-Kame
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