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    vmscan: do not force-scan file lru if its absolute size is small · 316bda0e
    Vladimir Davydov authored
    We assume there is enough inactive page cache if the size of inactive
    file lru is greater than the size of active file lru, in which case we
    force-scan file lru ignoring anonymous pages.  While this logic works
    fine when there are plenty of page cache pages, it fails if the size of
    file lru is small (several MB): in this case (lru_size >> prio) will be
    0 for normal scan priorities, as a result, if inactive file lru happens
    to be larger than active file lru, anonymous pages of a cgroup will
    never get evicted unless the system experiences severe memory pressure,
    even if there are gigabytes of unused anonymous memory there, which is
    unfair in respect to other cgroups, whose workloads might be page cache
    oriented.
    
    This patch attempts to fix this by elaborating the "enough inactive page
    cache" check: it makes it not only check that inactive lru size > active
    lru size, but also that we will scan something from the cgroup at the
    current scan priority.  If these conditions do not hold, we proceed to
    SCAN_FRACT as usual.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
    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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