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mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is being made
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Fri, 5 Nov 2021 20:42:32 +0000 (13:42 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 6 Nov 2021 20:30:40 +0000 (13:30 -0700)
commit261519e5da58ae75c0661e9459b5216362721475
treeabb513cef30212ff745f22043d3b43a646f78804
parent35beee49fbe53f9ad409b773d42f16240e704c6c
mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is being made

Memcg reclaim throttles on congestion if no reclaim progress is made.
This makes little sense, it might be due to writeback or a host of other
factors.

For !memcg reclaim, it's messy.  Direct reclaim primarily is throttled
in the page allocator if it is failing to make progress.  Kswapd
throttles if too many pages are under writeback and marked for immediate
reclaim.

This patch explicitly throttles if reclaim is failing to make progress.

[vbabka@suse.cz: Remove redundant code]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mmzone.h
include/trace/events/vmscan.h
mm/memcontrol.c
mm/vmscan.c