Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Johannes Weiner <> | Subject | [patch 5/8] mm: vmscan: improve comment on low-page cache handling | Date | Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:43:37 -0500 |
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Fix comment style and elaborate on why anonymous memory is force-scanned when file cache runs low.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> --- mm/vmscan.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 5e1beed..05475e1 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1697,13 +1697,15 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc, file = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE) + get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE); + /* + * If it's foreseeable that reclaiming the file cache won't be + * enough to get the zone back into a desirable shape, we have + * to swap. Better start now and leave the - probably heavily + * thrashing - remaining file pages alone. + */ if (global_reclaim(sc)) { - free = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES); + free = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES); if (unlikely(file + free <= high_wmark_pages(zone))) { - /* - * If we have very few page cache pages, force-scan - * anon pages. - */ fraction[0] = 1; fraction[1] = 0; denominator = 1; -- 1.7.11.7
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