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authorMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>2011-05-24 17:11:11 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-06-03 09:32:13 +0900
commit22d82c7586eb492067805dd781f84f5a94133357 (patch)
tree2572ecc9f094ada7ad71487706f5e192fd44033c /mm
parent75cd1e8f7b2737a8bb2f1817f23e83135579569f (diff)
mm: vmscan: correctly check if reclaimer should schedule during shrink_slab
commit f06590bd718ed950c98828e30ef93204028f3210 upstream. It has been reported on some laptops that kswapd is consuming large amounts of CPU and not being scheduled when SLUB is enabled during large amounts of file copying. It is expected that this is due to kswapd missing every cond_resched() point because; shrink_page_list() calls cond_resched() if inactive pages were isolated which in turn may not happen if all_unreclaimable is set in shrink_zones(). If for whatver reason, all_unreclaimable is set on all zones, we can miss calling cond_resched(). balance_pgdat() only calls cond_resched if the zones are not balanced. For a high-order allocation that is balanced, it checks order-0 again. During that window, order-0 might have become unbalanced so it loops again for order-0 and returns that it was reclaiming for order-0 to kswapd(). It can then find that a caller has rewoken kswapd for a high-order and re-enters balance_pgdat() without ever calling cond_resched(). shrink_slab only calls cond_resched() if we are reclaiming slab pages. If there are a large number of direct reclaimers, the shrinker_rwsem can be contended and prevent kswapd calling cond_resched(). This patch modifies the shrink_slab() case. If the semaphore is contended, the caller will still check cond_resched(). After each successful call into a shrinker, the check for cond_resched() remains in case one shrinker is particularly slow. [mgorman@suse.de: preserve call to cond_resched after each call into shrinker] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Tested-by: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> Cc: Raghavendra D Prabhu <raghu.prabhu13@gmail.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 1aa262b1d5e..cc1470bc9b8 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -230,8 +230,11 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(unsigned long scanned, gfp_t gfp_mask,
if (scanned == 0)
scanned = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
- if (!down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem))
- return 1; /* Assume we'll be able to shrink next time */
+ if (!down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem)) {
+ /* Assume we'll be able to shrink next time */
+ ret = 1;
+ goto out;
+ }
list_for_each_entry(shrinker, &shrinker_list, list) {
unsigned long long delta;
@@ -282,6 +285,8 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(unsigned long scanned, gfp_t gfp_mask,
shrinker->nr += total_scan;
}
up_read(&shrinker_rwsem);
+out:
+ cond_resched();
return ret;
}