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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> | 2021-11-05 23:42:32 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-11-06 23:30:40 +0300 |
| commit | 69392a403f49e6e33f9dfb1d6edb87c8006f83c2 (patch) | |
| tree | abb513cef30212ff745f22043d3b43a646f78804 /include/trace/events/vmscan.h | |
| parent | d818fca1cac31b1fc9301bda83e195a46fb4ebaa (diff) | |
| download | linux-69392a403f49e6e33f9dfb1d6edb87c8006f83c2.tar.xz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/trace/events/vmscan.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/trace/events/vmscan.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/trace/events/vmscan.h b/include/trace/events/vmscan.h index d4905bd9e9c4..f25a6149d3ba 100644 --- a/include/trace/events/vmscan.h +++ b/include/trace/events/vmscan.h @@ -29,11 +29,13 @@ #define _VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK (1 << VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK) #define _VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED (1 << VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED) +#define _VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS (1 << VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS) #define show_throttle_flags(flags) \ (flags) ? __print_flags(flags, "|", \ {_VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK, "VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK"}, \ - {_VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED, "VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED"} \ + {_VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED, "VMSCAN_THROTTLE_ISOLATED"}, \ + {_VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS, "VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS"} \ ) : "VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NONE" |