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mm, vmscan: clear PGDAT_WRITEBACK when zone is balanced
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Fri, 24 Feb 2017 22:59:07 +0000 (14:59 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 25 Feb 2017 01:46:55 +0000 (17:46 -0800)
commit0f6ff1fcf99d16be8e272bc35bf9f06bf8254260
tree91e1437faa00f552fb68c1c339c9d4f446b2ac01
parentefd8a0446dd85a8a3045630d6e5c1105d20f700a
mm, vmscan: clear PGDAT_WRITEBACK when zone is balanced

Hillf Danton pointed out that since commit 0861ed25707 ("mm, vmscan:
make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes") that PGDAT_WRITEBACK is no
longer cleared.

It was not noticed as triggering it requires pages under writeback to
cycle twice through the LRU and before kswapd gets stalled.
Historically, such issues tended to occur on small machines writing
heavily to slow storage such as a USB stick.

Once kswapd stalls, direct reclaim stalls may be higher but due to the
fact that memory pressure is required, it would not be very noticable.

Michal Hocko suggested removing the flag entirely but the conservative
fix is to restore the intended PGDAT_WRITEBACK behaviour and clear the
flag when a suitable zone is balanced.

Fixes: 0861ed25707a ("mm, vmscan: make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170203203222.gq7hk66yc36lpgtb@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c