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SubjectRe: [PATCH] vmscan: bail out of page reclaim after swap_cluster_max pages
KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>> Sometimes the VM spends the first few priority rounds rotating back
>> referenced pages and submitting IO. Once we get to a lower priority,
>> sometimes the VM ends up freeing way too many pages.
>>
>> The fix is relatively simple: in shrink_zone() we can check how many
>> pages we have already freed, direct reclaim tasks break out of the
>> scanning loop if they have already freed enough pages and have reached
>> a lower priority level.
>>
>> However, in order to do this we do need to know how many pages we already
>> freed, so move nr_reclaimed into scan_control.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> Kosaki, this should address the zone scanning pressure issue.
>
> hmmmm. I still don't like the behavior when priority==DEF_PRIORITY.
> but I also should explain by code and benchmark.

Well, the behaviour when priority==DEF_PRIORITY is the
same as the kernel's behaviour without the patch...

> therefore, I'll try to mesure this patch in this week.

Looking forward to it.

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