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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>2016-07-28 15:45:59 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-07-28 16:07:41 -0700
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mm: vmscan: do not reclaim from kswapd if there is any eligible zone
kswapd scans from highest to lowest for a zone that requires balancing. This was necessary when reclaim was per-zone to fairly age pages on lower zones. Now that we are reclaiming on a per-node basis, any eligible zone can be used and pages will still be aged fairly. This patch avoids reclaiming excessively unless buffer_heads are over the limit and it's necessary to reclaim from a higher zone than requested by the waker of kswapd to relieve low memory pressure. [hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com: Force kswapd reclaim no more than needed] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466518566-30034-12-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-13-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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