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authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>2005-11-28 13:44:07 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-11-28 14:42:25 -0800
commitf7b7fd8f3ebbb2810d6893295aa984acd0fd30db (patch)
tree01afc1edafc50a3c65ec8576c05c60da53d8d242 /mm/vmscan.c
parenta93a117eaa0bec426d4671a49bfa96a6fdcd2ac9 (diff)
[PATCH] temporarily disable swap token on memory pressure
Some users (hi Zwane) have seen a problem when running a workload that eats nearly all of physical memory - th system does an OOM kill, even when there is still a lot of swap free. The problem appears to be a very big task that is holding the swap token, and the VM has a very hard time finding any other page in the system that is swappable. Instead of ignoring the swap token when sc->priority reaches 0, we could simply take the swap token away from the memory hog and make sure we don't give it back to the memory hog for a few seconds. This patch resolves the problem Zwane ran into. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 28130541270f..078cf920208a 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ static int shrink_list(struct list_head *page_list, struct scan_control *sc)
if (PageWriteback(page))
goto keep_locked;
- referenced = page_referenced(page, 1, sc->priority <= 0);
+ referenced = page_referenced(page, 1);
/* In active use or really unfreeable? Activate it. */
if (referenced && page_mapping_inuse(page))
goto activate_locked;
@@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ refill_inactive_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc)
if (page_mapped(page)) {
if (!reclaim_mapped ||
(total_swap_pages == 0 && PageAnon(page)) ||
- page_referenced(page, 0, sc->priority <= 0)) {
+ page_referenced(page, 0)) {
list_add(&page->lru, &l_active);
continue;
}
@@ -960,6 +960,8 @@ int try_to_free_pages(struct zone **zones, gfp_t gfp_mask)
sc.nr_reclaimed = 0;
sc.priority = priority;
sc.swap_cluster_max = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
+ if (!priority)
+ disable_swap_token();
shrink_caches(zones, &sc);
shrink_slab(sc.nr_scanned, gfp_mask, lru_pages);
if (reclaim_state) {
@@ -1056,6 +1058,10 @@ loop_again:
int end_zone = 0; /* Inclusive. 0 = ZONE_DMA */
unsigned long lru_pages = 0;
+ /* The swap token gets in the way of swapout... */
+ if (!priority)
+ disable_swap_token();
+
all_zones_ok = 1;
if (nr_pages == 0) {
@@ -1360,6 +1366,7 @@ int zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
sc.nr_reclaimed = 0;
/* scan at the highest priority */
sc.priority = 0;
+ disable_swap_token();
if (nr_pages > SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX)
sc.swap_cluster_max = nr_pages;