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mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle
authorYu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:36:58 +0000 (13:36 -0600)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 7 Oct 2022 21:28:39 +0000 (14:28 -0700)
commit46be59468c6ab19c7df7ae175aa4b929730c8279
tree31f0ace9fb727fee9c89c916dea4c9614d75937e
parentb677c6f04704bba92d70ef8727dbeb1b2122d97f
mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle

wakeup_flusher_threads() was added under the assumption that if a system
runs out of clean cold pages, it might want to write back dirty pages more
aggressively so that they can become clean and be dropped.

However, doing so can breach the rate limit a system wants to impose on
writeback, resulting in early SSD wearout.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YzSiWq9UEER5LKup@google.com
Fixes: 79e102d0b1de ("mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks")
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reported-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c