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vmscan: more aggressively use lumpy reclaim
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vmscan-more-aggressively-use-lumpy-reclaim.patch
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Subject: vmscan: more aggressively use lumpy reclaim
From: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
During an AIM7 run on a 16GB system, fork started failing around
32000 threads, despite the system having plenty of free swap and
15GB of pageable memory.
If normal pageout does not result in contiguous free pages for
kernel stacks, fall back to lumpy reclaim instead of failing fork
or doing excessive pageout IO.
I do not know whether this change is needed due to the extreme
stress test or because the inactive list is a smaller fraction
of system memory on huge systems.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6.26-rc2-mm1/mm/vmscan.c
===================================================================
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~more-aggressively-use-lumpy-reclaim mm/vmscan.c
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~more-aggressively-use-lumpy-reclaim
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -875,7 +875,8 @@ int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page)
* of reclaimed pages
*/
static unsigned long shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long max_scan,
- struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc, int file)
+ struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc,
+ int priority, int file)
{
LIST_HEAD(page_list);
struct pagevec pvec;
@@ -893,8 +894,19 @@ static unsigned long shrink_inactive_lis
unsigned long nr_freed;
unsigned long nr_active;
unsigned int count[NR_LRU_LISTS] = { 0, };
- int mode = (sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) ?
- ISOLATE_BOTH : ISOLATE_INACTIVE;
+ int mode = ISOLATE_INACTIVE;
+
+ /*
+ * If we need a large contiguous chunk of memory, or have
+ * trouble getting a small set of contiguous pages, we
+ * will reclaim both active and inactive pages.
+ *
+ * We use the same threshold as pageout congestion_wait below.
+ */
+ if (sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)
+ mode = ISOLATE_BOTH;
+ else if (sc->order && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
+ mode = ISOLATE_BOTH;
nr_taken = sc->isolate_pages(sc->swap_cluster_max,
&page_list, &nr_scan, sc->order, mode,
@@ -1189,7 +1201,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_list(enum lr
shrink_active_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc, priority, file);
return 0;
}
- return shrink_inactive_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc, file);
+ return shrink_inactive_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc, priority, file);
}
/*
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from riel@xxxxxxxxxx are
ntp-let-update_persistent_clock-sleep.patch
access_process_vm-device-memory-infrastructure.patch
access_process_vm-device-memory-infrastructure-fix.patch
use-generic_access_phys-for-dev-mem-mappings.patch
use-generic_access_phys-for-dev-mem-mappings-fix.patch
use-generic_access_phys-for-pci-mmap-on-x86.patch
powerpc-ioremap_prot.patch
spufs-use-the-new-vm_ops-access.patch
spufs-use-the-new-vm_ops-access-fix.patch
page-flags-record-page-flag-overlays-explicitly.patch
page-flags-record-page-flag-overlays-explicitly-xen.patch
slub-record-page-flag-overlays-explicitly.patch
slob-record-page-flag-overlays-explicitly.patch
vmscan-give-referenced-active-and-unmapped-pages-a-second-trip-around-the-lru.patch
idr-change-the-idr-structure.patch
idr-rename-some-of-the-idr-apis-internal-routines.patch
idr-fix-a-printk-call.patch
idr-error-checking-factorization.patch
idr-make-idr_get_new-rcu-safe.patch
idr-make-idr_get_new-rcu-safe-fix.patch
idr-make-idr_find-rcu-safe.patch
idr-make-idr_remove-rcu-safe.patch
ipc-call-idr_find-without-locking-in-ipc_lock.patch
ipc-get-rid-of-ipc_lock_down.patch
vmscan-move-isolate_lru_page-to-vmscanc.patch
vmscan-use-an-indexed-array-for-lru-variables.patch
vmscan-use-an-array-for-the-lru-pagevecs.patch
vmscan-free-swap-space-on-swap-in-activation.patch
vmscan-define-page_file_cache-function.patch
vmscan-split-lru-lists-into-anon-file-sets.patch
vmscan-second-chance-replacement-for-anonymous-pages.patch
vmscan-add-some-sanity-checks-to-get_scan_ratio.patch
vmscan-fix-pagecache-reclaim-referenced-bit-check.patch
vmscan-add-newly-swapped-in-pages-to-the-inactive-list.patch
vmscan-more-aggressively-use-lumpy-reclaim.patch
vmscan-pageflag-helpers-for-configed-out-flags.patch
vmscan-noreclaim-lru-infrastructure.patch
vmscan-noreclaim-lru-page-statistics.patch
vmscan-ramfs-and-ram-disk-pages-are-non-reclaimable.patch
vmscan-shm_locked-pages-are-non-reclaimable.patch
vmscan-mlocked-pages-are-non-reclaimable.patch
vmscan-downgrade-mmap-sem-while-populating-mlocked-regions.patch
vmscan-handle-mlocked-pages-during-map-remap-unmap.patch
vmscan-mlocked-pages-statistics.patch
vmscan-cull-non-reclaimable-pages-in-fault-path.patch
vmscan-noreclaim-and-mlocked-pages-vm-events.patch
mm-only-vmscan-noreclaim-lru-scan-sysctl.patch
vmscan-mlocked-pages-count-attempts-to-free-mlocked-page.patch
vmscan-noreclaim-lru-and-mlocked-pages-documentation.patch
make-mm-rmapc-anon_vma_cachep-static.patch
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