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authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>2009-06-16 15:32:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-16 19:47:38 -0700
commit56e49d218890f49b0057710a4b6fef31f5ffbfec (patch)
treea0525dd9a140352276bdfb76a3d65230c3e5121d /mm/memcontrol.c
parent35efa5e993a7a00a50b87d2b7725c3eafc80b083 (diff)
vmscan: evict use-once pages first
When the file LRU lists are dominated by streaming IO pages, evict those pages first, before considering evicting other pages. This should be safe from deadlocks or performance problems because only three things can happen to an inactive file page: 1) referenced twice and promoted to the active list 2) evicted by the pageout code 3) under IO, after which it will get evicted or promoted The pages freed in this way can either be reused for streaming IO, or allocated for something else. If the pages are used for streaming IO, this pageout pattern continues. Otherwise, we will fall back to the normal pageout pattern. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reported-by: Elladan <elladan@eskimo.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memcontrol.c')
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diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 78eb8552818b..70db6e0a5eec 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -570,6 +570,17 @@ int mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
return 0;
}
+int mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+ unsigned long active;
+ unsigned long inactive;
+
+ inactive = mem_cgroup_get_local_zonestat(memcg, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE);
+ active = mem_cgroup_get_local_zonestat(memcg, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE);
+
+ return (active > inactive);
+}
+
unsigned long mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
struct zone *zone,
enum lru_list lru)