• Vladimir Davydov's avatar
    mm: vmscan: never isolate more pages than necessary · 0b802f10
    Vladimir Davydov authored
    If transparent huge pages are enabled, we can isolate many more pages
    than we actually need to scan, because we count both single and huge
    pages equally in isolate_lru_pages().
    
    Since commit 5bc7b8ac ("mm: thp: add split tail pages to shrink
    page list in page reclaim"), we scan all the tail pages immediately
    after a huge page split (see shrink_page_list()).  As a result, we can
    reclaim up to SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX * HPAGE_PMD_NR (512 MB) in one run!
    
    This is easy to catch on memcg reclaim with zswap enabled.  The latter
    makes swapout instant so that if we happen to scan an unreferenced huge
    page we will evict both its head and tail pages immediately, which is
    likely to result in excessive reclaim.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
    Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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