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authorMartin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>2005-06-22 04:14:43 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-22 05:46:14 +0400
commit1e7e5a9048b30c57ba1ddaa6cdf59b21b65cde99 (patch)
tree26eb9c483718ca1a0fad23597c0dfd3a69e9f080 /mm/page_alloc.c
parent0c35bbadc59f5ed105c34471143eceb4c0dd9c95 (diff)
downloadlinux-1e7e5a9048b30c57ba1ddaa6cdf59b21b65cde99.tar.xz
[PATCH] VM: rate limit early reclaim
When early zone reclaim is turned on the LRU is scanned more frequently when a zone is low on memory. This limits when the zone reclaim can be called by skipping the scan if another thread (either via kswapd or sync reclaim) is already reclaiming from the zone. Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index a9da20bc2ed0..2019c1b19254 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1738,6 +1738,7 @@ static void __init free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
zone->nr_scan_inactive = 0;
zone->nr_active = 0;
zone->nr_inactive = 0;
+ atomic_set(&zone->reclaim_in_progress, -1);
if (!size)
continue;