The patch titled vmscan: clip swap_cluster_max in shrink_all_memory() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was vmscan-clip-swap_cluster_max-in-shrink_all_memory.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: vmscan: clip swap_cluster_max in shrink_all_memory() From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> shrink_inactive_list() scans in sc->swap_cluster_max chunks until it hits the scan limit it was passed. shrink_inactive_list() { do { isolate_pages(swap_cluster_max) shrink_page_list() } while (nr_scanned < max_scan); } This assumes that swap_cluster_max is not bigger than the scan limit because the latter is checked only after at least one iteration. In shrink_all_memory() sc->swap_cluster_max is initialized to the overall reclaim goal in the beginning but not decreased while reclaim is making progress which leads to subsequent calls to shrink_inactive_list() reclaiming way too much in the one iteration that is done unconditionally. Set sc->swap_cluster_max always to the proper goal before doing shrink_all_zones() shrink_list() shrink_inactive_list(). While the current shrink_all_memory() happily reclaims more than actually requested, this patch fixes it to never exceed the goal: unpatched wanted=10000 reclaimed=13356 wanted=10000 reclaimed=19711 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10289 wanted=10000 reclaimed=17306 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10700 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10004 wanted=10000 reclaimed=13301 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10976 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10605 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10088 wanted=10000 reclaimed=15000 patched wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=10000 reclaimed=9599 wanted=10000 reclaimed=8476 wanted=10000 reclaimed=8326 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=10000 reclaimed=9919 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=10000 reclaimed=9624 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=8500 reclaimed=8092 wanted=316 reclaimed=316 Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~vmscan-clip-swap_cluster_max-in-shrink_all_memory mm/vmscan.c --- a/mm/vmscan.c~vmscan-clip-swap_cluster_max-in-shrink_all_memory +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2109,7 +2109,6 @@ unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned struct scan_control sc = { .gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL, .may_unmap = 0, - .swap_cluster_max = nr_pages, .may_writepage = 1, .isolate_pages = isolate_pages_global, }; @@ -2151,6 +2150,7 @@ unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned unsigned long nr_to_scan = nr_pages - sc.nr_reclaimed; sc.nr_scanned = 0; + sc.swap_cluster_max = nr_to_scan; shrink_all_zones(nr_to_scan, prio, pass, &sc); if (sc.nr_reclaimed >= nr_pages) goto out; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch cifs-use-kzfree.patch memcg-remove-mem_cgroup_calc_mapped_ratio-take2.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html