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authorVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>2015-02-11 15:25:55 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-11 17:06:02 -0800
commit90cbc2508827e1e15dca23361c33cc26dd2b9e99 (patch)
tree2506a694871a0b916c60990b945b883a334791d5 /mm/vmscan.c
parent81422f29c5f4fb968023f465218c3d978c133ceb (diff)
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vmscan: force scan offline memory cgroups
Since commit b2052564e66d ("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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index f756a202d5d5..b6dfa0081a8e 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1903,8 +1903,12 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, int swappiness,
* latencies, so it's better to scan a minimum amount there as
* well.
*/
- if (current_is_kswapd() && !zone_reclaimable(zone))
- force_scan = true;
+ if (current_is_kswapd()) {
+ if (!zone_reclaimable(zone))
+ force_scan = true;
+ if (!mem_cgroup_lruvec_online(lruvec))
+ force_scan = true;
+ }
if (!global_reclaim(sc))
force_scan = true;