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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>2011-05-18 02:44:10 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-18 13:55:23 +0400
commitd6c438b6cd733834a3cec55af8577a8fc3548016 (patch)
tree95c7719415aecf9f2a09b1e885d23ba54eb9b5b8 /mm
parentd5f33d45e4c0e306e8d16b4573891a65d9ad544f (diff)
downloadlinux-d6c438b6cd733834a3cec55af8577a8fc3548016.tar.xz
memcg: fix zone congestion
ZONE_CONGESTED should be a state of global memory reclaim. If not, a busy memcg sets this and give unnecessary throttoling in wait_iff_congested() against memory recalim in other contexts. This makes system performance bad. I'll think about "memcg is congested!" flag is required or not, later. But this fix is required first. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index f6b435c80079..8bfd45050a61 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ keep_lumpy:
* back off and wait for congestion to clear because further reclaim
* will encounter the same problem
*/
- if (nr_dirty == nr_congested && nr_dirty != 0)
+ if (nr_dirty && nr_dirty == nr_congested && scanning_global_lru(sc))
zone_set_flag(zone, ZONE_CONGESTED);
free_page_list(&free_pages);