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| author | Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> | 2012-05-29 15:06:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-05-29 16:22:19 -0700 |
| commit | e709ffd6169ccd259eb5874e853303e91e94e829 (patch) | |
| tree | 796b56c2507b8581492da73e354d651c9dd7076b /include/linux/mm_types.h | |
| parent | edad9d2c337d43278a9d5aeb0ed531c2e838f8a6 (diff) | |
mm: remove swap token code
The swap token code no longer fits in with the current VM model. It
does not play well with cgroups or the better NUMA placement code in
development, since we have only one swap token globally.
It also has the potential to mess with scalability of the system, by
increasing the number of non-reclaimable pages on the active and
inactive anon LRU lists.
Last but not least, the swap token code has been broken for a year
without complaints, as reported by Konstantin Khlebnikov. This suggests
we no longer have much use for it.
The days of sub-1G memory systems with heavy use of swap are over. If
we ever need thrashing reducing code in the future, we will have to
implement something that does scale.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Bob Picco <bpicco@meloft.net>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm_types.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm_types.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h index 26574c726121..dad95bdd06d7 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -345,17 +345,6 @@ struct mm_struct { /* Architecture-specific MM context */ mm_context_t context; - /* Swap token stuff */ - /* - * Last value of global fault stamp as seen by this process. - * In other words, this value gives an indication of how long - * it has been since this task got the token. - * Look at mm/thrash.c - */ - unsigned int faultstamp; - unsigned int token_priority; - unsigned int last_interval; - unsigned long flags; /* Must use atomic bitops to access the bits */ struct core_state *core_state; /* coredumping support */ |