From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755961Ab2IIXce (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Sep 2012 19:32:34 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:51206 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755874Ab2IIXQN (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Sep 2012 19:16:13 -0400 Message-Id: <20120909224203.552334438@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 23:43:25 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Satoru Moriya , Minchan Kim , Rik van Riel , Jerome Marchand Subject: [ 95/95] mm: avoid swapping out with swappiness==0 In-Reply-To: <20120909224150.641491654@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:21c:bfff:fe03:f805 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Satoru Moriya commit fe35004fbf9eaf67482b074a2e032abb9c89b1dd upstream. Sometimes we'd like to avoid swapping out anonymous memory. In particular, avoid swapping out pages of important process or process groups while there is a reasonable amount of pagecache on RAM so that we can satisfy our customers' requirements. OTOH, we can control how aggressive the kernel will swap memory pages with /proc/sys/vm/swappiness for global and /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.swappiness for each memcg. But with current reclaim implementation, the kernel may swap out even if we set swappiness=0 and there is pagecache in RAM. This patch changes the behavior with swappiness==0. If we set swappiness==0, the kernel does not swap out completely (for global reclaim until the amount of free pages and filebacked pages in a zone has been reduced to something very very small (nr_free + nr_filebacked < high watermark)). Signed-off-by: Satoru Moriya Acked-by: Minchan Kim Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Jerome Marchand Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context - vmscan_swappiness() does not have a zone parameter] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- mm/vmscan.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1977,10 +1977,10 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct zone * * proportional to the fraction of recently scanned pages on * each list that were recently referenced and in active use. */ - ap = (anon_prio + 1) * (reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[0] + 1); + ap = anon_prio * (reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[0] + 1); ap /= reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[0] + 1; - fp = (file_prio + 1) * (reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[1] + 1); + fp = file_prio * (reclaim_stat->recent_scanned[1] + 1); fp /= reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[1] + 1; spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock); @@ -1993,7 +1993,7 @@ out: unsigned long scan; scan = zone_nr_lru_pages(zone, sc, l); - if (priority || noswap) { + if (priority || noswap || !vmscan_swappiness(sc)) { scan >>= priority; if (!scan && force_scan) scan = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;