linux/mm
Michal Hocko e975de998b memcg, vmscan: do not fall into reclaim-all pass too quickly
shrink_zone starts with soft reclaim pass first and then falls back to
regular reclaim if nothing has been scanned.  This behavior is natural
but there is a catch.  Memcg iterators, when used with the reclaim
cookie, are designed to help to prevent from over reclaim by
interleaving reclaimers (per node-zone-priority) so the tree walk might
miss many (even all) nodes in the hierarchy e.g.  when there are direct
reclaimers racing with each other or with kswapd in the global case or
multiple allocators reaching the limit for the target reclaim case.  To
make it even more complicated, targeted reclaim doesn't do the whole
tree walk because it stops reclaiming once it reclaims sufficient pages.
As a result groups over the limit might be missed, thus nothing is
scanned, and reclaim would fall back to the reclaim all mode.

This patch checks for the incomplete tree walk in shrink_zone.  If no
group has been visited and the hierarchy is soft reclaimable then we
must have missed some groups, in which case the __shrink_zone is called
again.  This doesn't guarantee there will be some progress of course
because the current reclaimer might be still racing with others but it
would at least give a chance to start the walk without a big risk of
reclaim latencies.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@openvz.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-12 15:38:01 -07:00
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backing-dev.c mm/backing-dev.c: check user buffer length before copying data to the related user buffer 2013-09-11 15:58:03 -07:00
balloon_compaction.c
bootmem.c mm: kill free_all_bootmem_node() 2013-07-03 16:07:39 -07:00
bounce.c
cleancache.c
compaction.c mm: compaction: do not compact pgdat for order-0 2013-09-11 15:57:55 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap_xip.c
filemap.c lib/radix-tree.c: make radix_tree_node_alloc() work correctly within interrupt 2013-09-11 15:59:36 -07:00
fremap.c mm: save soft-dirty bits on file pages 2013-08-13 17:57:48 -07:00
frontswap.c frontswap: fix incorrect zeroing and allocation size for frontswap_map 2013-06-12 16:29:46 -07:00
highmem.c
huge_memory.c mm/huge_memory.c: fix potential NULL pointer dereference 2013-09-11 15:57:19 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c cgroup: pass around cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup in file methods 2013-08-08 20:11:24 -04:00
hugetlb.c mm: prepare to remove /proc/sys/vm/hugepages_treat_as_movable 2013-09-11 15:57:49 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm/hwpoison-inject.c: change permission of corrupt-pfn/unpoison-pfn to 0200 2013-09-11 15:58:11 -07:00
init-mm.c
internal.h mm: vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages() livelock 2013-09-11 15:58:01 -07:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/next' into kvm-ppc-next 2013-08-29 00:41:59 +02:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c mm: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul() 2013-09-11 15:57:11 -07:00
ksm.c mm: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul() 2013-09-11 15:57:11 -07:00
maccess.c
madvise.c mm/madvise.c:madvise_hwpoison(): remove local `ret' 2013-09-11 15:58:13 -07:00
Makefile zswap: add to mm/ 2013-07-10 18:11:34 -07:00
memblock.c memblock, numa: binary search node id 2013-09-11 15:57:51 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: track all children over limit in the root 2013-09-12 15:38:01 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage 2013-09-11 15:57:48 -07:00
memory-failure.c mm/memory-failure.c: fix bug triggered by unpoisoning empty zero page 2013-09-11 15:58:12 -07:00
memory.c mm: migrate: add hugepage migration code to move_pages() 2013-09-11 15:57:48 -07:00
mempolicy.c mbind: add BUG_ON(!vma) in new_vma_page() 2013-09-11 15:57:50 -07:00
mempool.c mm/mempool.c: convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node(...) 2013-09-11 15:58:14 -07:00
migrate.c mm: vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages() livelock 2013-09-11 15:58:01 -07:00
mincore.c
mlock.c mm: munlock: manual pte walk in fast path instead of follow_page_mask() 2013-09-11 15:58:01 -07:00
mm_init.c mm: tune vm_committed_as percpu_counter batching size 2013-07-03 16:07:32 -07:00
mmap.c mm/mmap: remove unnecessary assignment 2013-09-11 15:58:13 -07:00
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c treewide: relase -> release 2013-06-28 14:34:33 +02:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c mm/mremap.c: call pud_free() after fail calling pmd_alloc() 2013-09-11 15:58:03 -07:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm: concentrate modification of totalram_pages into the mm core 2013-07-03 16:07:33 -07:00
nommu.c mm: remove free_area_cache 2013-07-10 18:11:34 -07:00
oom_kill.c mm/oom_kill: remove weird use of ERR_PTR()/PTR_ERR(). 2013-07-15 11:25:05 +09:30
page_alloc.c mm: correct the comment about the value for buddy _mapcount 2013-09-11 15:58:06 -07:00
page_cgroup.c
page_io.c mm: remove compressed copy from zram in-memory 2013-07-03 16:07:26 -07:00
page_isolation.c mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage 2013-09-11 15:57:48 -07:00
page-writeback.c mm/page-writeback.c: add strictlimit feature 2013-09-11 15:58:04 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm/pagewalk.c: walk_page_range should avoid VM_PFNMAP areas 2013-05-24 16:22:53 -07:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c
pgtable-generic.c mm: move pgtable related functions to right place 2013-09-11 15:57:30 -07:00
process_vm_access.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c readahead: make context readahead more conservative 2013-09-11 15:57:39 -07:00
rmap.c s390/mm: implement software referenced bits 2013-08-29 13:20:11 +02:00
shmem.c initmpfs: make rootfs use tmpfs when CONFIG_TMPFS enabled 2013-09-11 15:59:37 -07:00
slab_common.c Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2013-07-14 15:14:29 -07:00
slab.c kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
slab.h memcg: check that kmem_cache has memcg_params before accessing it 2013-08-28 19:26:38 -07:00
slob.c Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2013-07-14 15:14:29 -07:00
slub.c mm: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul() 2013-09-11 15:57:11 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c mm/sparse: introduce alloc_usemap_and_memmap 2013-09-11 15:58:01 -07:00
swap_state.c lib/radix-tree.c: make radix_tree_node_alloc() work correctly within interrupt 2013-09-11 15:59:36 -07:00
swap.c mm: fix aio performance regression for database caused by THP 2013-09-11 15:57:55 -07:00
swapfile.c swap: make cluster allocation per-cpu 2013-09-11 15:57:17 -07:00
truncate.c mm: teach truncate_inode_pages_range() to handle non page aligned ranges 2013-05-27 23:32:35 -04:00
util.c swap: clean-up #ifdef in page_mapping() 2013-09-11 15:57:31 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc: use wrapper function get_vm_area_size to caculate size of vm area 2013-09-11 15:58:02 -07:00
vmpressure.c Merge branch 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2013-09-03 18:25:03 -07:00
vmscan.c memcg, vmscan: do not fall into reclaim-all pass too quickly 2013-09-12 15:38:01 -07:00
vmstat.c mm: vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages() livelock 2013-09-11 15:58:01 -07:00
zbud.c mm/zbud: fix some trivial typos in comments 2013-09-11 15:57:35 -07:00
zswap.c mm/zswap: use postorder iteration when destroying rbtree 2013-09-11 15:59:21 -07:00