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mm: throttle direct reclaimers if PF_MEMALLOC reserves are low and swap is backed...
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:44:35 +0000 (16:44 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 1 Aug 2012 01:42:46 +0000 (18:42 -0700)
commit5515061d22f0f9976ae7815864bfd22042d36848
tree13b53a29166f19eb864e96b3b58539a207e5fa2f
parent7f338fe4540b1d0600b02314c7d885fd358e9eca
mm: throttle direct reclaimers if PF_MEMALLOC reserves are low and swap is backed by network storage

If swap is backed by network storage such as NBD, there is a risk that a
large number of reclaimers can hang the system by consuming all
PF_MEMALLOC reserves.  To avoid these hangs, the administrator must tune
min_free_kbytes in advance which is a bit fragile.

This patch throttles direct reclaimers if half the PF_MEMALLOC reserves
are in use.  If the system is routinely getting throttled the system
administrator can increase min_free_kbytes so degradation is smoother but
the system will keep running.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mmzone.h
mm/page_alloc.c
mm/vmscan.c