linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vmscan: fix missing place to check nr_swap

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Date:	Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:42:21 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
To:	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@...gle.com>
Cc:	Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmscan: fix missing place to check nr_swap_pages.

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 06:30:58PM -0700, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com> wrote:
> > In our system, we do have swap configured. In vmscan.c, there are
> > couple of places where we skip scanning
> > and shrinking anon lru while the condition if(nr_swap_pages <= 0)  is
> > true. It still make sense to me to add it
> > to the shrink_active() condition as the initial patch.
> >
> > Also, we found it is quite often to hit the condition
> > inactive_anon_is_low on machine with small numa node size, since the
> > zone->inactive_ratio is set based on the zone->present_pages.
> >
> 
> Does "total_swap_pages" help?

Yes. Thanks for advising. 

> 
> Thanks,
> Venki

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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