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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/10] mm: vmscan: Limit the number of pages kswapd reclaims at each priority
On 03/17/2013 09:04 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The number of pages kswapd can reclaim is bound by the number of pages it
> scans which is related to the size of the zone and the scanning priority. In
> many cases the priority remains low because it's reset every SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
> reclaimed pages but in the event kswapd scans a large number of pages it
> cannot reclaim, it will raise the priority and potentially discard a large
> percentage of the zone as sc->nr_to_reclaim is ULONG_MAX. The user-visible
> effect is a reclaim "spike" where a large percentage of memory is suddenly
> freed. It would be bad enough if this was just unused memory but because
> of how anon/file pages are balanced it is possible that applications get
> pushed to swap unnecessarily.
>
> This patch limits the number of pages kswapd will reclaim to the high
> watermark. Reclaim will will overshoot due to it not being a hard limit as
> shrink_lruvec() will ignore the sc.nr_to_reclaim at DEF_PRIORITY but it
> prevents kswapd reclaiming the world at higher priorities. The number of
> pages it reclaims is not adjusted for high-order allocations as kswapd will
> reclaim excessively if it is to balance zones for high-order allocations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>


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