linux/mm
Linus Torvalds b738d76465 Don't trigger congestion wait on dirty-but-not-writeout pages
shrink_inactive_list() used to wait 0.1s to avoid congestion when all
the pages that were isolated from the inactive list were dirty but not
under active writeback.  That makes no real sense, and apparently causes
major interactivity issues under some loads since 3.11.

The ostensible reason for it was to wait for kswapd to start writing
pages, but that seems questionable as well, since the congestion wait
code seems to trigger for kswapd itself as well.  Also, the logic behind
delaying anything when we haven't actually started writeback is not
clear - it only delays actually starting that writeback.

We'll still trigger the congestion waiting if

 (a) the process is kswapd, and we hit pages flagged for immediate
     reclaim

 (b) the process is not kswapd, and the zone backing dev writeback is
     actually congested.

This probably needs to be revisited, but as it is this fixes a reported
regression.

Reported-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Pinpointed-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-08 14:17:00 -07:00
..
backing-dev.c arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*() 2014-04-18 14:20:48 +02:00
balloon_compaction.c mm: print more details for bad_page() 2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: remove unused local `map' 2013-11-13 12:09:09 +09:00
cleancache.c mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGE 2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
compaction.c mm, compaction: properly signal and act upon lock and need_sched() contention 2014-06-04 16:54:11 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c mm/dmapool.c: reuse devres_release() to free resources 2014-06-04 16:54:08 -07:00
early_ioremap.c mm: create generic early_ioremap() support 2014-04-07 16:36:15 -07:00
fadvise.c teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long 2013-03-03 22:46:22 -05:00
failslab.c
filemap_xip.c seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures 2013-11-06 12:40:26 +01:00
filemap.c mm: avoid unnecessary atomic operations during end_page_writeback() 2014-06-04 16:54:10 -07:00
fremap.c mm: mark remap_file_pages() syscall as deprecated 2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
frontswap.c swap: change swap_list_head to plist, add swap_avail_head 2014-06-04 16:54:07 -07:00
gup.c mm: cleanup __get_user_pages() 2014-06-04 16:54:05 -07:00
highmem.c
huge_memory.c mm/huge_memory.c: complete conversion to pr_foo() 2014-06-04 16:53:58 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c cgroup: drop const from @buffer of cftype->write_string() 2014-03-19 10:23:54 -04:00
hugetlb.c hugetlb: rename hugepage_migration_support() to ..._supported() 2014-06-04 16:54:12 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm/hwpoison: add '#' to hwpoison_inject 2014-01-21 16:19:48 -08:00
init-mm.c
internal.h mm, compaction: properly signal and act upon lock and need_sched() contention 2014-06-04 16:54:11 -07:00
interval_tree.c
iov_iter.c take iov_iter stuff to mm/iov_iter.c 2014-04-01 23:19:30 -04:00
Kconfig mm/zsmalloc: make zsmalloc module-buildable 2014-06-04 16:54:14 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c mm/kmemleak-test.c: use pr_fmt for logging 2014-06-06 16:08:18 -07:00
kmemleak.c mm: introduce kmemleak_update_trace() 2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
ksm.c mm: close PageTail race 2014-03-04 07:55:47 -08:00
list_lru.c mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
maccess.c
madvise.c mm: madvise: fix MADV_WILLNEED on shmem swapouts 2014-05-23 09:37:29 -07:00
Makefile mm: move get_user_pages()-related code to separate file 2014-06-04 16:54:04 -07:00
memblock.c mm/memblock.c: call kmemleak directly from memblock_(alloc|free) 2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm: memcontrol: remove unnecessary memcg argument from soft limit functions 2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm, migration: add destination page freeing callback 2014-06-04 16:54:06 -07:00
memory-failure.c mm/memory-failure.c: support use of a dedicated thread to handle SIGBUS(BUS_MCEERR_AO) 2014-06-04 16:54:13 -07:00
memory.c mm: document do_fault_around() feature 2014-06-04 16:54:12 -07:00
mempolicy.c Merge branch 'next' (accumulated 3.16 merge window patches) into master 2014-06-08 11:31:16 -07:00
mempool.c mm/mempool.c: update the kmemleak stack trace for mempool allocations 2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
migrate.c hugetlb: rename hugepage_migration_support() to ..._supported() 2014-06-04 16:54:12 -07:00
mincore.c mm + fs: prepare for non-page entries in page cache radix trees 2014-04-03 16:21:00 -07:00
mlock.c mm: try_to_unmap_cluster() should lock_page() before mlocking 2014-04-07 16:35:57 -07:00
mm_init.c mm: bring back /sys/kernel/mm 2014-01-27 21:02:39 -08:00
mmap.c mm: convert some level-less printks to pr_* 2014-06-06 16:08:18 -07:00
mmu_context.c sched/mm: call finish_arch_post_lock_switch in idle_task_exit and use_mm 2014-02-21 08:50:17 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c mm: audit/fix non-modular users of module_init in core code 2014-01-23 16:36:52 -08:00
mmzone.c mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid} 2013-10-09 14:47:45 +02:00
mprotect.c mm: move mmu notifier call from change_protection to change_pmd_range 2014-04-07 16:35:50 -07:00
mremap.c mm, thp: close race between mremap() and split_huge_page() 2014-05-11 17:55:48 +09:00
msync.c mm/msync.c: sync only the requested range in msync() 2014-06-04 16:54:11 -07:00
nobootmem.c mm/memblock.c: call kmemleak directly from memblock_(alloc|free) 2014-06-06 16:08:17 -07:00
nommu.c mm: convert some level-less printks to pr_* 2014-06-06 16:08:18 -07:00
oom_kill.c mm, oom: base root bonus on current usage 2014-01-30 16:56:56 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table 2014-06-06 16:08:16 -07:00
page_cgroup.c mm/page_cgroup.c: mark functions as static 2014-04-03 16:21:02 -07:00
page_io.c swap: use bdev_read_page() / bdev_write_page() 2014-06-04 16:54:02 -07:00
page_isolation.c mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage 2013-09-11 15:57:48 -07:00
page-writeback.c Clean ups and miscellaneous bug fixes, in particular for the new 2014-06-08 13:03:35 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm/pagewalk.c: fix walk_page_range() access of wrong PTEs 2013-10-30 14:27:03 -07:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c percpu: make pcpu_alloc_chunk() use pcpu_mem_free() instead of kfree() 2014-04-14 16:18:06 -04:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: fix TLB flush race between migration, and change_protection_range 2013-12-18 19:04:51 -08:00
process_vm_access.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm/readahead.c: inline ra_submit 2014-04-07 16:35:58 -07:00
rmap.c Merge branch 'next' (accumulated 3.16 merge window patches) into master 2014-06-08 11:31:16 -07:00
shmem.c mm: non-atomically mark page accessed during page cache allocation where possible 2014-06-04 16:54:10 -07:00
slab_common.c slab: delete cache from list after __kmem_cache_shutdown succeeds 2014-06-04 16:54:08 -07:00
slab.c memcg, slab: merge memcg_{bind,release}_pages to memcg_{un}charge_slab 2014-06-04 16:54:01 -07:00
slab.h memcg, slab: merge memcg_{bind,release}_pages to memcg_{un}charge_slab 2014-06-04 16:54:01 -07:00
slob.c slab: get_online_mems for kmem_cache_{create,destroy,shrink} 2014-06-04 16:53:59 -07:00
slub.c slub: search partial list on numa_mem_id(), instead of numa_node_id() 2014-06-06 16:08:06 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm/sparse: use memblock apis for early memory allocations 2014-01-21 16:19:47 -08:00
sparse.c mm: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: page_alloc: convert hot/cold parameter and immediate callers to bool 2014-06-04 16:54:09 -07:00
swap.c mm: non-atomically mark page accessed during page cache allocation where possible 2014-06-04 16:54:10 -07:00
swapfile.c mm/swapfile.c: delete the "last_in_cluster < scan_base" loop in the body of scan_swap_map() 2014-06-04 16:54:12 -07:00
truncate.c mm: filemap: update find_get_pages_tag() to deal with shadow entries 2014-05-06 13:04:59 -07:00
util.c nick kvfree() from apparmor 2014-05-06 14:02:53 -04:00
vmacache.c mm,vmacache: optimize overflow system-wide flushing 2014-06-04 16:53:57 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: export unmap_kernel_range() 2014-06-04 16:54:14 -07:00
vmpressure.c arm, pm, vmpressure: add missing slab.h includes 2014-02-03 13:24:01 -05:00
vmscan.c Don't trigger congestion wait on dirty-but-not-writeout pages 2014-06-08 14:17:00 -07:00
vmstat.c mm: use the light version __mod_zone_page_state in mlocked_vma_newpage() 2014-06-04 16:54:07 -07:00
workingset.c mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
zbud.c mm/zbud.c: make size unsigned like unique callsite 2014-06-04 16:54:13 -07:00
zsmalloc.c zsmalloc: fixup trivial zs size classes value in comments 2014-06-04 16:54:13 -07:00
zswap.c mm/zswap: NUMA aware allocation for zswap_dstmem 2014-06-04 16:54:14 -07:00