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Johannes Weiner 726d061fbd mm: vmscan: kick flushers when we encounter dirty pages on the LRU
Memory pressure can put dirty pages at the end of the LRU without
anybody running into dirty limits.  Don't start writing individual pages
from kswapd while the flushers might be asleep.

Unlike the old direct reclaim flusher wakeup (removed in the next patch)
that flushes the number of pages just scanned, this patch wakes the
flushers for all outstanding dirty pages.  That seemed to perform better
in a synthetic test that pushes dirty pages to the end of the LRU and
into reclaim, because we know LRU aging outstrips writeback already, and
this way we give younger dirty pages a headstart rather than wait until
reclaim runs into them as well.  It also means less plugging and risk of
exhausting the struct request pool from reclaim.

There is a concern that this will cause temporary files that used to get
dirtied and truncated before writeback to now get written to disk under
memory pressure.  If this turns out to be a real problem, we'll have to
revisit this and tame the reclaim flusher wakeups.

[hannes@cmpxchg.org: mention dirty expiration as a condition]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170126174739.GA30636@cmpxchg.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123181641.23938-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 17:46:54 -08:00
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acpi Merge branches 'acpi-bus', 'acpi-sleep' and 'acpi-processor' 2017-02-20 14:28:03 +01:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-02-20 13:23:30 -08:00
clocksource
crypto crypto: algapi - make crypto_xor() and crypto_inc() alignment agnostic 2017-02-11 17:52:28 +08:00
drm Less anger inducing pull request for 4.11 2017-02-23 18:58:18 -08:00
dt-bindings ARM: SoC driver updates 2017-02-23 15:57:04 -08:00
keys
kvm KVM: arm/arm64: Emulate the EL1 phys timer registers 2017-02-08 15:13:37 +00:00
linux mm: vmscan: kick flushers when we encounter dirty pages on the LRU 2017-02-24 17:46:54 -08:00
math-emu
media
memory
misc
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-02-22 10:15:09 -08:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma Mellanox specific updates for 4.11 merge window 2017-02-23 11:27:49 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi SCSI misc on 20170220 2017-02-21 11:51:42 -08:00
soc ARC updates for 4.11 rc1 2017-02-22 10:33:53 -08:00
sound ASoC: Updates for v4.11 2017-02-20 21:43:40 +01:00
target First set of updates for 4.11 kernel merge window 2017-02-23 08:27:57 -08:00
trace mm: vmscan: kick flushers when we encounter dirty pages on the LRU 2017-02-24 17:46:54 -08:00
uapi userfaultfd: non-cooperative: rename *EVENT_MADVDONTNEED to *EVENT_REMOVE 2017-02-24 17:46:54 -08:00
video drm/exynos/decon5433: signal vblank only on odd fields 2017-02-07 13:52:52 +09:00
xen xen/privcmd: Add IOCTL_PRIVCMD_DM_OP 2017-02-14 15:13:43 -05:00
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