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Commit d7f05528 authored by Mel Gorman's avatar Mel Gorman Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm, vmscan: account for skipped pages as a partial scan

Page reclaim determines whether a pgdat is unreclaimable by examining
how many pages have been scanned since a page was freed and comparing
that to the LRU sizes.  Skipped pages are not reclaim candidates but
contribute to scanned.  This can prematurely mark a pgdat as
unreclaimable and trigger an OOM kill.

This patch accounts for skipped pages as a partial scan so that an
unreclaimable pgdat will still be marked as such but by scaling the cost
of a skip, it'll avoid the pgdat being marked prematurely.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469110261-7365-6-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net


Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f8d1a311
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