From bc6930457460788e14b2c0808ed4632a1592bd61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Minchan Kim Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:38:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: compaction: handle active and inactive fairly in too_many_isolated Iram reported that compaction's too_many_isolated() loops forever. (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg08123.html) The meminfo when the situation happened was inactive anon is zero. That's because the system has no memory pressure until then. While all anon pages were in the active lru, compaction could select active lru as well as inactive lru. That's a different thing from vmscan's isolated. So we has been two too_many_isolated. While compaction can isolate pages in both active and inactive, current implementation of too_many_isolated only considers inactive. It made Iram's problem. This patch handles active and inactive fairly. That's because we can't expect where from and how many compaction would isolated pages. This patch changes (nr_isolated > nr_inactive) with nr_isolated > (nr_active + nr_inactive) / 2. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Reported-by: Iram Shahzad Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Wu Fengguang Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/compaction.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 94cce51b0b35..4d709ee59013 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -214,15 +214,16 @@ static void acct_isolated(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc) /* Similar to reclaim, but different enough that they don't share logic */ static bool too_many_isolated(struct zone *zone) { - - unsigned long inactive, isolated; + unsigned long active, inactive, isolated; inactive = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE) + zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON); + active = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE) + + zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON); isolated = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_FILE) + zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON); - return isolated > inactive; + return isolated > (inactive + active) / 2; } /*