This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%
to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-pagealloc-sysctl-change-watermark_scale_factor-ma.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 57588851e09927798f7a9a96a70b1bb134015075
Author: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jan 14 14:07:17 2022 -0800
mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%
[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]
For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started. This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.
By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@xxxxxx>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Stable-dep-of: 935d44acf621 ("memfd: check for non-NULL file_seals in memfd_create() syscall")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
index 06027c6a233ab..ac852f93f8da5 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ how much memory needs to be free before kswapd goes back to sleep.
The unit is in fractions of 10,000. The default value of 10 means the
distances between watermarks are 0.1% of the available memory in the
-node/system. The maximum value is 1000, or 10% of memory.
+node/system. The maximum value is 3000, or 30% of memory.
A high rate of threads entering direct reclaim (allocstall) or kswapd
going to sleep prematurely (kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly) can indicate
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index d981abea0358d..953c021039704 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ static unsigned long long_max = LONG_MAX;
static int one_hundred = 100;
static int two_hundred = 200;
static int one_thousand = 1000;
+static int three_thousand = 3000;
#ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
static int ten_thousand = 10000;
#endif
@@ -2987,7 +2988,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = watermark_scale_factor_sysctl_handler,
.extra1 = SYSCTL_ONE,
- .extra2 = &one_thousand,
+ .extra2 = &three_thousand,
},
{
.procname = "percpu_pagelist_fraction",
