linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] mm, vmscan: Account for skipped pages as a partial scan

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jul 2016 12:02:12 -0400
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] mm, vmscan: Account for skipped pages as a partial
 scan

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 03:11:01PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Page reclaim determines whether a pgdat is unreclaimable by examining how
> many pages have been scanned since a page was freed and comparing that to
> the LRU sizes. Skipped pages are not reclaim candidates but contribute to
> scanned. This can prematurely mark a pgdat as unreclaimable and trigger
> an OOM kill.
> 
> This patch accounts for skipped pages as a partial scan so that an
> unreclaimable pgdat will still be marked as such but by scaling the cost
> of a skip, it'll avoid the pgdat being marked prematurely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>