RE: 2.6.10-rc3: kswapd eats CPU on start of memory-eating task

[Rik van Riel]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > > You need the oneline patch that Andrew Morton posted two
> > > days ago:
> > >
> > > Message-Id: <20041219230754.64c0e52e.akpm@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > You mean that totally disable swap_token?

Oops, wrong thread ;(     You need this one:

Message-Id: <20041220125443.091a911b.akpm@xxxxxxxx>

We haven't been incrementing local variable total_scanned since the
scan_control stuff went in.  That broke kswapd throttling.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---

 25-akpm/mm/vmscan.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- linux-2.6.9/mm/vmscan.c.oom	2004-12-21 11:26:20.343790527 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.9/mm/vmscan.c	2004-12-21 11:27:43.514384221 -0500
@@ -1079,6 +1079,7 @@
 			shrink_slab(sc.nr_scanned, GFP_KERNEL, lru_pages);
 			sc.nr_reclaimed += reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab;
 			total_reclaimed += sc.nr_reclaimed;
+			total_scanned += sc.nr_scanned;
 			if (zone->all_unreclaimable)
 				continue;
 			if (zone->pages_scanned >= (zone->nr_active +

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