Johannes Weiner 0bf1457f0c mm: vmscan: do not swap anon pages just because free+file is low ... Page reclaim force-scans / swaps anonymous pages when file cache drops below the high watermark of a zone in order to prevent what little cache remains from thrashing. However, on bigger machines the high watermark value can be quite large and when the workload is dominated by a static anonymous/shmem set, the file set might just be a small window of used-once cache. In such situations, the VM starts swapping heavily when instead it should be recycling the no longer used cache. This is a longer-standing problem, but it's more likely to trigger after commit 81c0a2bb51 ("mm: page_alloc: fair zone allocator policy") because file pages can no longer accumulate in a single zone and are dispersed into smaller fractions among the available zones. To resolve this, do not force scan anon when file pages are low but instead rely on the scan/rotation ratios to make the right prediction. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [3.12+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>		2014-04-08 16:48:51 -07:00
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backing-dev.c	bdi: avoid oops on device removal	2014-04-03 16:20:49 -07:00
balloon_compaction.c	mm: print more details for bad_page()	2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
bootmem.c	mm/bootmem.c: remove unused local `map'	2013-11-13 12:09:09 +09:00
bounce.c	block: Convert bio_for_each_segment() to bvec_iter	2013-11-23 22:33:49 -08:00
cleancache.c	mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGE	2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
compaction.c	mm, compaction: determine isolation mode only once	2014-04-07 16:35:55 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c	dmapool: make DMAPOOL_DEBUG detect corruption of free marker	2012-12-11 17:22:24 -08:00
early_ioremap.c	mm: create generic early_ioremap() support	2014-04-07 16:36:15 -07:00
fadvise.c	teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long	2013-03-03 22:46:22 -05:00
failslab.c
filemap_xip.c	seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures	2013-11-06 12:40:26 +01:00
filemap.c	memcg: rename high level charging functions	2014-04-07 16:35:57 -07:00
fremap.c	mm: fix bad rss-counter if remap_file_pages raced migration	2014-03-19 16:21:49 -07:00
frontswap.c	frontswap: fix incorrect zeroing and allocation size for frontswap_map	2013-06-12 16:29:46 -07:00
highmem.c	Some nice cleanups, and even a patch my wife did as a "live" demo for	2012-12-20 08:37:05 -08:00
huge_memory.c	memcg: rename high level charging functions	2014-04-07 16:35:57 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c	cgroup: drop const from @buffer of cftype->write_string()	2014-03-19 10:23:54 -04:00
hugetlb.c	mm: hugetlb: fix softlockup when a large number of hugepages are freed.	2014-04-07 16:35:58 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c	mm/hwpoison: add '#' to hwpoison_inject	2014-01-21 16:19:48 -08:00
init-mm.c
internal.h	mm/readahead.c: inline ra_submit	2014-04-07 16:35:58 -07:00
interval_tree.c	mm: add CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_RB build option	2012-10-09 16:22:42 +09:00
Kconfig	mm: create generic early_ioremap() support	2014-04-07 16:36:15 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c	kmemleak: change some global variables to int	2014-04-03 16:20:50 -07:00
ksm.c	mm: close PageTail race	2014-03-04 07:55:47 -08:00
list_lru.c	mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check	2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
maccess.c
madvise.c	mm/hwpoison: fix traversal of hugetlbfs pages to avoid printk flood	2013-09-30 14:31:02 -07:00
Makefile	mm: create generic early_ioremap() support	2014-04-07 16:36:15 -07:00
memblock.c	mm/memblock.c: use PFN_PHYS()	2014-04-07 16:35:58 -07:00
memcontrol.c	memcg, slab: do not destroy children caches if parent has aliases	2014-04-07 16:36:13 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c	mm/memory_hotplug.c: move register_memory_resource out of the lock_memory_hotplug	2014-01-23 16:36:52 -08:00
memory-failure.c	Merge branch 'for-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup	2014-04-03 13:05:42 -07:00
memory.c	mm: remove unused arg of set_page_dirty_balance()	2014-04-07 16:35:57 -07:00
mempolicy.c	mm, mempolicy: remove per-process flag	2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
mempool.c	mempool: add unlikely and likely hints	2014-04-07 16:35:55 -07:00
migrate.c	mm: fix swapops.h:131 bug if remap_file_pages raced migration	2014-03-20 22:09:09 -07:00
mincore.c	mm + fs: prepare for non-page entries in page cache radix trees	2014-04-03 16:21:00 -07:00
mlock.c	mm: try_to_unmap_cluster() should lock_page() before mlocking	2014-04-07 16:35:57 -07:00
mm_init.c	mm: bring back /sys/kernel/mm	2014-01-27 21:02:39 -08:00
mmap.c	mm: per-thread vma caching	2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
mmu_context.c	sched/mm: call finish_arch_post_lock_switch in idle_task_exit and use_mm	2014-02-21 08:50:17 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c	mm: audit/fix non-modular users of module_init in core code	2014-01-23 16:36:52 -08:00
mmzone.c	mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid}	2013-10-09 14:47:45 +02:00
mprotect.c	mm: move mmu notifier call from change_protection to change_pmd_range	2014-04-07 16:35:50 -07:00
mremap.c	mm: revert mremap pud_free anti-fix	2013-10-16 21:35:53 -07:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c	mm/nobootmem.c: mark function as static	2014-04-03 16:21:02 -07:00
nommu.c	mm: fix 'ERROR: do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL' and coding style	2014-04-07 16:35:55 -07:00
oom_kill.c	mm, oom: base root bonus on current usage	2014-01-30 16:56:56 -08:00
page_alloc.c	mm/page_alloc.c: change mm debug routines back to EXPORT_SYMBOL	2014-04-07 16:35:59 -07:00
page_cgroup.c	mm/page_cgroup.c: mark functions as static	2014-04-03 16:21:02 -07:00
page_io.c	Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block	2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
page_isolation.c	mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage	2013-09-11 15:57:48 -07:00
page-writeback.c	mm: remove unused arg of set_page_dirty_balance()	2014-04-07 16:35:57 -07:00
pagewalk.c	mm/pagewalk.c: fix walk_page_range() access of wrong PTEs	2013-10-30 14:27:03 -07:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c	mm: fix kernel-doc warnings	2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
percpu.c	percpu: renew the max_contig if we merge the head and previous block	2014-03-29 09:29:42 -04:00
pgtable-generic.c	mm: fix TLB flush race between migration, and change_protection_range	2013-12-18 19:04:51 -08:00
process_vm_access.c	mm/process_vm_access.c: mark function as static	2014-04-03 16:21:02 -07:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c	mm/readahead.c: inline ra_submit	2014-04-07 16:35:58 -07:00
rmap.c	mm: try_to_unmap_cluster() should lock_page() before mlocking	2014-04-07 16:35:57 -07:00
shmem.c	memcg: rename high level charging functions	2014-04-07 16:35:57 -07:00
slab_common.c	memcg, slab: do not destroy children caches if parent has aliases	2014-04-07 16:36:13 -07:00
slab.c	mm, mempolicy: remove per-process flag	2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
slab.h	memcg, slab: never try to merge memcg caches	2014-04-07 16:36:12 -07:00
slob.c	mm/sl[aou]b: Move kmallocXXX functions to common code	2013-09-04 20:51:33 +03:00
slub.c	slub: use raw_cpu_inc for incrementing statistics	2014-04-07 16:36:14 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c	mm/sparse: use memblock apis for early memory allocations	2014-01-21 16:19:47 -08:00
sparse.c	mm: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...))	2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
swap_state.c	swap: add a simple detector for inappropriate swapin readahead	2014-02-06 13:48:51 -08:00
swap.c	mm: thrash detection-based file cache sizing	2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
swapfile.c	mm/swap: fix race on swap_info reuse between swapoff and swapon	2014-02-06 13:48:51 -08:00
truncate.c	mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check	2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
util.c	mm: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...))	2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
vmacache.c	mm: per-thread vma caching	2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
vmalloc.c	mm/vmalloc.c: enhance vm_map_ram() comment	2014-04-07 16:35:55 -07:00
vmpressure.c	arm, pm, vmpressure: add missing slab.h includes	2014-02-03 13:24:01 -05:00
vmscan.c	mm: vmscan: do not swap anon pages just because free+file is low	2014-04-08 16:48:51 -07:00
vmstat.c	CPU hotplug notifiers registration fixes for 3.15-rc1	2014-04-07 14:55:46 -07:00
workingset.c	mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check	2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
zbud.c	mm/zbud: fix some trivial typos in comments	2013-09-11 15:57:35 -07:00
zsmalloc.c	zsmalloc: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration	2014-03-20 13:43:45 +01:00
zswap.c	Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)	2014-04-07 16:38:06 -07:00