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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmtom: Prevent shrinking of active anon lru list in case of no swap space V3
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:25:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A0C37D0.60004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090514231555.f52c81eb.minchan.kim@gmail.com>

MinChan Kim wrote:

> This patch prevents unnecessary deactivation of anon lru pages.
> But, it don't prevent aging of anon pages to swap out.

> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -1577,7 +1577,7 @@ static void shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone,
>  	 * Even if we did not try to evict anon pages at all, we want to
>  	 * rebalance the anon lru active/inactive ratio.
>  	 */
> -	if (inactive_anon_is_low(zone, sc))
> +	if (inactive_anon_is_low(zone, sc) && nr_swap_pages > 0)
>  		shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, zone, sc, priority, 0);
>  
>  	throttle_vm_writeout(sc->gfp_mask);

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-14 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-14 14:15 MinChan Kim
2009-05-14 14:27 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-05-14 14:39   ` Minchan Kim
2009-05-14 14:54     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-05-14 16:22     ` Johannes Weiner
2009-05-15  1:28       ` Minchan Kim
2009-05-14 15:25 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2009-05-14 16:30 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-14 17:26   ` Rik van Riel
2009-05-18  2:34 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-05-18  2:40   ` Minchan Kim

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