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:Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by:
Michal 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:
Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net> Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus 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:
Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
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