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authorMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>2010-09-09 16:38:00 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-09-20 13:36:38 -0700
commit5b253de765e92893bd5431ed995e3ca58bac274c (patch)
treec5ca633adfbc6d916dfce3c95e9a531e7700c1d9
parentcfa7e5c5fce001efa3d35c84229aec67ae6ade7a (diff)
mm: compaction: handle active and inactive fairly in too_many_isolated
commit bc6930457460788e14b2c0808ed4632a1592bd61 upstream. Iram reported that compaction's too_many_isolated() loops forever. (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg08123.html) The meminfo when the situation happened was inactive anon is zero. That's because the system has no memory pressure until then. While all anon pages were in the active lru, compaction could select active lru as well as inactive lru. That's a different thing from vmscan's isolated. So we has been two too_many_isolated. While compaction can isolate pages in both active and inactive, current implementation of too_many_isolated only considers inactive. It made Iram's problem. This patch handles active and inactive fairly. That's because we can't expect where from and how many compaction would isolated pages. This patch changes (nr_isolated > nr_inactive) with nr_isolated > (nr_active + nr_inactive) / 2. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reported-by: Iram Shahzad <iram.shahzad@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--mm/compaction.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 94cce51b0b3..4d709ee5901 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -214,15 +214,16 @@ static void acct_isolated(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc)
/* Similar to reclaim, but different enough that they don't share logic */
static bool too_many_isolated(struct zone *zone)
{
-
- unsigned long inactive, isolated;
+ unsigned long active, inactive, isolated;
inactive = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE) +
zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
+ active = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
+ zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON);
isolated = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_FILE) +
zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON);
- return isolated > inactive;
+ return isolated > (inactive + active) / 2;
}
/*