From 1480de0340a8d5f094b74d7c4b902456c9a06903 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konstantin Khlebnikov Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:34:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: forbid lumpy-reclaim in shrink_active_list() Reset the reclaim mode in shrink_active_list() to RECLAIM_MODE_SINGLE | RECLAIM_MODE_ASYNC. (sync/async sign is used only in shrink_page_list and does not affect shrink_active_list) Currenly shrink_active_list() sometimes works in lumpy-reclaim mode, if RECLAIM_MODE_LUMPYRECLAIM is left over from an earlier shrink_inactive_list(). Meanwhile, in age_active_anon() sc->reclaim_mode is totally zero. So the current behavior is too complex and confusing, and this looks like bug. In general, shrink_active_list() populates the inactive list for the next shrink_inactive_list(). Lumpy shring_inactive_list() isolates pages around the chosen one from both the active and inactive lists. So, there is no reason for lumpy isolation in shrink_active_list(). See also: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/15/583 Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Proposed-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 55d86c9506f35b..49f15ef0a99a3f 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1690,6 +1690,8 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, lru_add_drain(); + reset_reclaim_mode(sc); + if (!sc->may_unmap) isolate_mode |= ISOLATE_UNMAPPED; if (!sc->may_writepage)