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Commit c9b6e228 authored by Mel Gorman's avatar Mel Gorman Committed by Gerrit - the friendly Code Review server
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mm: vmscan: do not allow kswapd to scan at maximum priority



Page reclaim at priority 0 will scan the entire LRU as priority 0 is
considered to be a near OOM condition.  Kswapd can reach priority 0
quite easily if it is encountering a large number of pages it cannot
reclaim such as pages under writeback.  When this happens, kswapd
reclaims very aggressively even though there may be no real risk of
allocation failure or OOM.

This patch prevents kswapd reaching priority 0 and trying to reclaim the
world.  Direct reclaimers will still reach priority 0 in the event of an
OOM situation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: default avatarZlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Git-commit: 9aa41348a8d11427feec350b21dcdd4330fd20c4
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git


Change-Id: I6bd5891e9f2b670b3c495cfad26d69af92e6d856
Signed-off-by: default avatarVinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
parent befdc292
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