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memcg, vmscan: Fix forced scan of anonymous pages

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When memory cgoups are enabled, the code that decides to force to scan
anonymous pages in get_scan_count() compares global values (free,
high_watermark) to a value that is restricted to a memory cgroup (file).
It make the code over-eager to force anon scan.

For instance, it will force anon scan when scanning a memcg that is
mainly populated by anonymous page, even when there is plenty of file
pages to get rid of in others memcgs, even when swappiness == 0.  It
breaks user's expectation about swappiness and hurts performance.

This patch makes sure that forced anon scan only happens when there not
enough file pages for the all zone, not just in one random memcg.

[hannes@cmpxchg.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jerome Marchand 2014-08-06 16:08:03 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 7c0db9e917
commit 2ab051e11b
1 changed files with 13 additions and 7 deletions
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@ -1930,11 +1930,6 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, int swappiness,
goto out;
}
anon = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON) +
get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON);
file = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE) +
get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE);
/*
* Prevent the reclaimer from falling into the cache trap: as
* cache pages start out inactive, every cache fault will tip
@ -1945,9 +1940,14 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, int swappiness,
* anon pages. Try to detect this based on file LRU size.
*/
if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
unsigned long free = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
unsigned long zonefile;
unsigned long zonefree;
if (unlikely(file + free <= high_wmark_pages(zone))) {
zonefree = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
zonefile = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
if (unlikely(zonefile + zonefree <= high_wmark_pages(zone))) {
scan_balance = SCAN_ANON;
goto out;
}
@ -1982,6 +1982,12 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, int swappiness,
*
* anon in [0], file in [1]
*/
anon = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON) +
get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON);
file = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE) +
get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE);
spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
if (unlikely(reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[0] > anon / 4)) {
reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[0] /= 2;