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mm: vmscan: do not continue scanning if reclaim was aborted for compaction 

Direct reclaim is not aborting to allow compaction to go ahead properly.
do_try_to_free_pages is told to abort reclaim which is happily ignores
and instead increases priority instead until it reaches 0 and starts
shrinking file/anon equally.  This patch corrects the situation by
aborting reclaim when requested instead of raising priority.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Mel Gorman 2013-07-08 16:00:24 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 7e9f5eb03d
commit 5a1c9cbc15
1 changed files with 5 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -2361,8 +2361,10 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
aborted_reclaim = shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
/*
* Don't shrink slabs when reclaiming memory from
* over limit cgroups
* Don't shrink slabs when reclaiming memory from over limit
* cgroups but do shrink slab at least once when aborting
* reclaim for compaction to avoid unevenly scanning file/anon
* LRU pages over slab pages.
*/
if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
unsigned long lru_pages = 0;
@ -2404,7 +2406,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES);
sc->may_writepage = 1;
}
} while (--sc->priority >= 0);
} while (--sc->priority >= 0 && !aborted_reclaim);
out:
delayacct_freepages_end();