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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)
commitcc5b00bf659fddb3126a869418abcdd270609a05
tree31f0ace9fb727fee9c89c916dea4c9614d75937e
parent8aba8767db9f25a6c050d760c89bd699390f6dd1
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: d6cb17c5af77 ("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