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diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index ff2ebe9458a..5d4c4d02254 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1503,10 +1503,6 @@ module_init(kswapd_init)
*
* If non-zero call zone_reclaim when the number of free pages falls below
* the watermarks.
- *
- * In the future we may add flags to the mode. However, the page allocator
- * should only have to check that zone_reclaim_mode != 0 before calling
- * zone_reclaim().
*/
int zone_reclaim_mode __read_mostly;
@@ -1524,6 +1520,12 @@ int zone_reclaim_mode __read_mostly;
#define ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY 4
/*
+ * Percentage of pages in a zone that must be unmapped for zone_reclaim to
+ * occur.
+ */
+int sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio = 1;
+
+/*
* Try to free up some pages from this zone through reclaim.
*/
static int __zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
@@ -1590,18 +1592,17 @@ int zone_reclaim(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
int node_id;
/*
- * Do not reclaim if there are not enough reclaimable pages in this
- * zone that would satify this allocations.
+ * Zone reclaim reclaims unmapped file backed pages.
*
- * All unmapped pagecache pages are reclaimable.
- *
- * Both counters may be temporarily off a bit so we use
- * SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX as the boundary. It may also be good to
- * leave a few frequently used unmapped pagecache pages around.
+ * A small portion of unmapped file backed pages is needed for
+ * file I/O otherwise pages read by file I/O will be immediately
+ * thrown out if the zone is overallocated. So we do not reclaim
+ * if less than a specified percentage of the zone is used by
+ * unmapped file backed pages.
*/
if (zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_PAGES) -
- zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_MAPPED) < SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX)
- return 0;
+ zone_page_state(zone, NR_FILE_MAPPED) <= zone->min_unmapped_ratio)
+ return 0;
/*
* Avoid concurrent zone reclaims, do not reclaim in a zone that does