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authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>2009-12-14 17:59:48 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-15 08:53:21 -0800
commitb39415b2731d7dec5e612d2d12595da82399eedf (patch)
treea8c59b1bc820d643d2e969f866a54147d7015c2e /mm/page_alloc.c
parent8aa043d74559556a661cb2eb6e64497eec86ec77 (diff)
vmscan: do not evict inactive pages when skipping an active list scan
In AIM7 runs, recent kernels start swapping out anonymous pages well before they should. This is due to shrink_list falling through to shrink_inactive_list if !inactive_anon_is_low(zone, sc), when all we really wanted to do is pre-age some anonymous pages to give them extra time to be referenced while on the inactive list. The obvious fix is to make sure that shrink_list does not fall through to scanning/reclaiming inactive pages when we called it to scan one of the active lists. This change should be safe because the loop in shrink_zone ensures that we will still shrink the anon and file inactive lists whenever we should. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: inactive_file_is_low() should be inactive_anon_is_low()] Reported-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org> Signed-off-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>
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