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| author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | 2006-09-25 23:31:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-09-26 08:48:48 -0700 |
| commit | 408d85441cd5a9bd6bc851d677a10c605ed8db5f (patch) | |
| tree | 547ba9fbd4000585f14e9fcdd3cf539cde58a25a | |
| parent | 6ddab3b9ebebc88bfdd8107c64f12d7e4480c559 (diff) | |
[PATCH] oom: use unreclaimable info
__alloc_pages currently starts shooting if page reclaim has failed to free up
swap_cluster_max pages in one run through the priorities. This is not always
a good indicator on its own, so make use of the all_unreclaimable logic as
well: don't consider going OOM until all zones we're interested in are
unreclaimable.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 16180587fd7d..ba18d0c36b83 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ struct scan_control { int swap_cluster_max; int swappiness; + + int all_unreclaimable; }; /* @@ -925,6 +927,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zones(int priority, struct zone **zones, unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0; int i; + sc->all_unreclaimable = 1; for (i = 0; zones[i] != NULL; i++) { struct zone *zone = zones[i]; @@ -941,6 +944,8 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zones(int priority, struct zone **zones, if (zone->all_unreclaimable && priority != DEF_PRIORITY) continue; /* Let kswapd poll it */ + sc->all_unreclaimable = 0; + nr_reclaimed += shrink_zone(priority, zone, sc); } return nr_reclaimed; @@ -1021,6 +1026,9 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zone **zones, gfp_t gfp_mask) if (sc.nr_scanned && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2) blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10); } + /* top priority shrink_caches still had more to do? don't OOM, then */ + if (!sc.all_unreclaimable) + ret = 1; out: for (i = 0; zones[i] != 0; i++) { struct zone *zone = zones[i]; |