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| author | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2011-05-17 15:44:10 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-05-18 02:55:23 -0700 |
| commit | d6c438b6cd733834a3cec55af8577a8fc3548016 (patch) | |
| tree | 95c7719415aecf9f2a09b1e885d23ba54eb9b5b8 | |
| parent | d5f33d45e4c0e306e8d16b4573891a65d9ad544f (diff) | |
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memcg: fix zone congestion
ZONE_CONGESTED should be a state of global memory reclaim. If not, a busy
memcg sets this and give unnecessary throttoling in wait_iff_congested()
against memory recalim in other contexts. This makes system performance
bad.
I'll think about "memcg is congested!" flag is required or not, later.
But this fix is required first.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index f6b435c80079..8bfd45050a61 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ keep_lumpy: * back off and wait for congestion to clear because further reclaim * will encounter the same problem */ - if (nr_dirty == nr_congested && nr_dirty != 0) + if (nr_dirty && nr_dirty == nr_congested && scanning_global_lru(sc)) zone_set_flag(zone, ZONE_CONGESTED); free_page_list(&free_pages); |