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[PATCH] oom: reclaim_mapped on oom

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Potentially it takes several scans of the lru lists before we can even start
reclaiming pages.

mapped pages, with young ptes can take 2 passes on the active list + one on
the inactive list.  But reclaim_mapped may not always kick in instantly, so it
could take even more than that.

Raise the threshold for marking a zone as all_unreclaimable from a factor of 4
time the pages in the zone to 6.  Introduce a mechanism to force
reclaim_mapped if we've reached a factor 3 and still haven't made progress.

Previously, a customer doing stress testing was able to easily OOM the box
after using only a small fraction of its swap (~100MB).  After the patches, it
would only OOM after having used up all swap (~800MB).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Nick Piggin 2006-09-25 23:31:28 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 408d85441c
commit 4ff1ffb487
1 changed files with 10 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -697,6 +697,11 @@ done:
return nr_reclaimed;
}
static inline int zone_is_near_oom(struct zone *zone)
{
return zone->pages_scanned >= (zone->nr_active + zone->nr_inactive)*3;
}
/*
* This moves pages from the active list to the inactive list.
*
@ -732,6 +737,9 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_pages, struct zone *zone,
long distress;
long swap_tendency;
if (zone_is_near_oom(zone))
goto force_reclaim_mapped;
/*
* `distress' is a measure of how much trouble we're having
* reclaiming pages. 0 -> no problems. 100 -> great trouble.
@ -767,6 +775,7 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_pages, struct zone *zone,
* memory onto the inactive list.
*/
if (swap_tendency >= 100)
force_reclaim_mapped:
reclaim_mapped = 1;
}
@ -1161,7 +1170,7 @@ scan:
if (zone->all_unreclaimable)
continue;
if (nr_slab == 0 && zone->pages_scanned >=
(zone->nr_active + zone->nr_inactive) * 4)
(zone->nr_active + zone->nr_inactive) * 6)
zone->all_unreclaimable = 1;
/*
* If we've done a decent amount of scanning and