linux/mm
Mel Gorman f50de2d381 vmscan: have kswapd sleep for a short interval and double check it should be asleep
After kswapd balances all zones in a pgdat, it goes to sleep.  In the
event of no IO congestion, kswapd can go to sleep very shortly after the
high watermark was reached.  If there are a constant stream of allocations
from parallel processes, it can mean that kswapd went to sleep too quickly
and the high watermark is not being maintained for sufficient length time.

This patch makes kswapd go to sleep as a two-stage process.  It first
tries to sleep for HZ/10.  If it is woken up by another process or the
high watermark is no longer met, it's considered a premature sleep and
kswapd continues work.  Otherwise it goes fully to sleep.

This adds more counters to distinguish between fast and slow breaches of
watermarks.  A "fast" premature sleep is one where the low watermark was
hit in a very short time after kswapd going to sleep.  A "slow" premature
sleep indicates that the high watermark was breached after a very short
interval.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00
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Kconfig mm: allow memory hotplug and hibernation in the same kernel 2009-11-17 17:40:33 -08:00
Kconfig.debug trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options 2009-09-21 15:14:57 +02:00
Makefile percpu: kill legacy percpu allocator 2009-10-02 13:29:29 +09:00
backing-dev.c flusher: Fix PF_FROZEN race 2009-12-03 13:49:43 +01:00
bootmem.c bootmem: Add free_bootmem_late() 2009-11-10 12:31:43 +01:00
bounce.c block: remove some includings of blktrace_api.h 2009-06-16 11:19:36 +02:00
debug-pagealloc.c generic debug pagealloc 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
dmapool.c dmapools: protect page_list walk in show_pools() 2009-06-30 18:56:00 -07:00
fadvise.c readahead: move max_sane_readahead() calls into force_page_cache_readahead() 2009-06-16 19:47:28 -07:00
failslab.c kmemtrace, mm: fix slab.h dependency problem in mm/failslab.c 2009-04-03 12:23:01 +02:00
filemap.c kill wait_on_page_writeback_range 2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00
filemap_xip.c const: mark struct vm_struct_operations 2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
fremap.c Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT 2009-02-10 10:48:42 -08:00
highmem.c highmem: Fix debug_kmap_atomic() to also handle KM_IRQ_PTE, KM_NMI, and KM_NMI_PTE 2009-11-10 04:15:47 +01:00
hugetlb.c mm: add gfp flags for NODEMASK_ALLOC slab allocations 2009-12-15 08:53:13 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs 2009-09-16 11:50:17 +02:00
init-mm.c mm: consolidate init_mm definition 2009-06-16 19:47:28 -07:00
internal.h mm: move highest_memmap_pfn 2009-09-22 07:17:41 -07:00
kmemcheck.c kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator 2009-06-15 15:48:33 +02:00
kmemleak-test.c percpu: clean up percpu variable definitions 2009-06-24 15:13:48 +09:00
kmemleak.c tree-wide: fix typos "aquire" -> "acquire", "cumsumed" -> "consumed" 2009-11-09 09:40:57 +01:00
ksm.c ksm: cond_resched in unstable tree 2009-11-09 09:55:44 -08:00
maccess.c [S390] maccess: add weak attribute to probe_kernel_write 2009-06-12 10:27:37 +02:00
madvise.c Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2009-09-24 07:53:22 -07:00
memcontrol.c tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place 2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
memory-failure.c tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place 2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
memory.c swap_info: swap count continuations 2009-12-15 08:53:15 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: clear node in N_HIGH_MEMORY and stop kswapd when all memory is offlined 2009-12-15 08:53:13 -08:00
mempolicy.c hugetlb: derive huge pages nodes allowed from task mempolicy 2009-12-15 08:53:12 -08:00
mempool.c mm: remove broken 'kzalloc' mempool 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
migrate.c mm: move inc_zone_page_state(NR_ISOLATED) to just isolated place 2009-12-15 08:53:12 -08:00
mincore.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 14 2009-01-14 14:15:24 +01:00
mlock.c mm: m(un)lock avoid ZERO_PAGE 2009-09-22 07:17:40 -07:00
mm_init.c mm: mminit_loglevel cannot be __meminitdata anymore 2008-08-20 15:40:30 -07:00
mmap.c mmap: don't return ENOMEM when mapcount is temporarily exceeded in munmap() 2009-12-15 08:53:11 -08:00
mmu_context.c mm: reduce atomic use on use_mm fast path 2009-09-22 07:17:42 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c ksm: add mmu_notifier set_pte_at_notify() 2009-09-22 07:17:31 -07:00
mmzone.c [ARM] Double check memmap is actually valid with a memmap has unexpected holes V2 2009-05-18 11:22:24 +01:00
mprotect.c perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
mremap.c Take arch_mmap_check() into get_unmapped_area() 2009-12-11 06:44:58 -05:00
msync.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 13 2009-01-14 14:15:23 +01:00
nommu.c NOMMU: Don't pass NULL pointers to fput() in do_mmap_pgoff() 2009-10-31 12:11:37 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom: dump stack and VM state when oom killer panics 2009-12-15 08:53:10 -08:00
page-writeback.c writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks 2009-12-03 13:54:25 +01:00
page_alloc.c tracing: Fix kmem event exports 2009-11-26 13:17:43 +01:00
page_cgroup.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
page_io.c swap: rework map_swap_page() again 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00
page_isolation.c memory hotplug: fix page_zone() calculation in test_pages_isolated() 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
pagewalk.c pagemap: pass mm into pagewalkers 2008-06-12 18:05:41 -07:00
percpu.c Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-next 2009-12-08 10:02:12 +09:00
prio_tree.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
quicklist.c cpumask: use new-style cpumask ops in mm/quicklist. 2009-09-24 09:34:52 +09:30
readahead.c readahead: introduce context readahead algorithm 2009-06-16 19:47:30 -07:00
rmap.c rmap: move label `out' to a better place 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00
shmem.c swap_info: note SWAP_MAP_SHMEM 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00
shmem_acl.c shmfs: use 'check_acl' instead of 'permission' 2009-09-08 11:08:46 -07:00
slab.c Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-14 10:13:22 -08:00
slob.c slab: remove duplicate kmem_cache_init_late() declarations 2009-08-06 11:36:25 +03:00
slub.c Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-14 10:13:22 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
sparse.c memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online 2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
swap.c mm: replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages 2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: add_to_swap_cache() does not return -EEXIST 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
swapfile.c swap: rework map_swap_page() again 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00
thrash.c mm: pass mm to grab_swap_token 2009-06-23 12:50:05 -07:00
truncate.c mm: fix comments for invalidate_inode_pages2() 2009-12-04 15:39:48 +01:00
util.c fix a struct file leak in do_mmap_pgoff() 2009-12-11 06:44:57 -05:00
vmalloc.c vmalloc(): adjust gfp mask passed on nested vmalloc() invocation 2009-12-15 08:53:13 -08:00
vmscan.c vmscan: have kswapd sleep for a short interval and double check it should be asleep 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00
vmstat.c vmscan: have kswapd sleep for a short interval and double check it should be asleep 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00