From 56e49d218890f49b0057710a4b6fef31f5ffbfec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rik van Riel Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:32:28 -0700 Subject: vmscan: evict use-once pages first When the file LRU lists are dominated by streaming IO pages, evict those pages first, before considering evicting other pages. This should be safe from deadlocks or performance problems because only three things can happen to an inactive file page: 1) referenced twice and promoted to the active list 2) evicted by the pageout code 3) under IO, after which it will get evicted or promoted The pages freed in this way can either be reused for streaming IO, or allocated for something else. If the pages are used for streaming IO, this pageout pattern continues. Otherwise, we will fall back to the normal pageout pattern. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Reported-by: Elladan Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/memcontrol.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h index 25b9ca93d232..45add35dda1b 100644 --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ extern void mem_cgroup_note_reclaim_priority(struct mem_cgroup *mem, extern void mem_cgroup_record_reclaim_priority(struct mem_cgroup *mem, int priority); int mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg); +int mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg); unsigned long mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct zone *zone, enum lru_list lru); @@ -239,6 +240,12 @@ mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) return 1; } +static inline int +mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) +{ + return 1; +} + static inline unsigned long mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct zone *zone, enum lru_list lru) -- cgit v1.2.3