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Message-Id: <20090609164850.DD73.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:58:36 +0900 (JST)
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mmotm] vmscan: handle may_swap more strictly (Re: [PATCH mmotm] vmscan: fix may_swap handling for memcg)
> Hi, KOSAKI.
>
> As you know, this problem caused by if condition(priority) in shrink_zone.
> Let me have a question.
>
> Why do we have to prevent scan value calculation when the priority is zero ?
> As I know, before split-lru, we didn't do it.
>
> Is there any specific issue in case of the priority is zero ?
Yes.
example:
get_scan_ratio() return anon:80%, file=20%. and the system have
10000 anon pages and 10000 file pages.
shrink_zone() picked up 8000 anon pages and 2000 file pages.
it mean 8000 file pages aren't scanned at all.
Oops, it can makes OOM-killer although system have droppable file cache.
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