The patch titled
Subject: mm: vmscan: improve comment on low-page cache handling
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-vmscan-improve-comment-on-low-page-cache-handling.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: vmscan: improve comment on low-page cache handling
Fix comment style and elaborate on why anonymous memory is force-scanned
when file cache runs low.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Simon Jeons <simon.jeons@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-improve-comment-on-low-page-cache-handling mm/vmscan.c
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-improve-comment-on-low-page-cache-handling
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1713,13 +1713,15 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec
file = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE) +
get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE);
+ /*
+ * If it's foreseeable that reclaiming the file cache won't be
+ * enough to get the zone back into a desirable shape, we have
+ * to swap. Better start now and leave the - probably heavily
+ * thrashing - remaining file pages alone.
+ */
if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
- free = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
+ free = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
if (unlikely(file + free <= high_wmark_pages(zone))) {
- /*
- * If we have very few page cache pages, force-scan
- * anon pages.
- */
fraction[0] = 1;
fraction[1] = 0;
denominator = 1;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
mm-memmap_init_zone-performance-improvement.patch
memcg-debugging-facility-to-access-dangling-memcgs.patch
debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners-fix-2-fix-fix-fix.patch
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