[PATCH] prevent to reclaim anon page of lumpy reclaim for no swapspace

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Thu Jun 25 2009 - 05:36:48 EST


This patch prevent to reclaim anon page in case of no swap space.
VM already prevent to reclaim anon page in various place.
But it doesnt't prevent it for lumpy reclaim.

It shuffles lru list unnecessary so that it is pointless.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 026f452..fb401fe 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -830,7 +830,13 @@ int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, int mode, int file)
* When this function is being called for lumpy reclaim, we
* initially look into all LRU pages, active, inactive and
* unevictable; only give shrink_page_list evictable pages.
+
+ * If we don't have enough swap space, reclaiming of anon page
+ * is pointless.
*/
+ if (nr_swap_pages <= 0 && PageAnon(page))
+ return ret;
+
if (PageUnevictable(page))
return ret;

--
1.5.4.3




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Kinds Regards
Minchan Kim
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