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vmscan: force scan offline memory cgroups
authorVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:25:55 +0000 (15:25 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 12 Feb 2015 01:06:02 +0000 (17:06 -0800)
commit273632420821cfd4611a1cc19fe529208b480e1b
tree2506a694871a0b916c60990b945b883a334791d5
parent790ce0fceb6670737db18ba6d6f5ee25d9612ea3
vmscan: force scan offline memory cgroups

Since commit 55056a5ee4c7 ("mm: memcontrol: continue cache reclaim from
offlined groups") pages charged to a memory cgroup are not reparented when
the cgroup is removed.  Instead, they are supposed to be reclaimed in a
regular way, along with pages accounted to online memory cgroups.

However, an lruvec of an offline memory cgroup will sooner or later get so
small that it will be scanned only at low scan priorities (see
get_scan_count()).  Therefore, if there are enough reclaimable pages in
big lruvecs, pages accounted to offline memory cgroups will never be
scanned at all, wasting memory.

Fix this by unconditionally forcing scanning dead lruvecs from kswapd.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/memcontrol.h
mm/memcontrol.c
mm/vmscan.c