linux/mm
Rik van Riel f1a9ee758d kswapd should only wait on IO if there is IO
The current kswapd (and try_to_free_pages) code has an oddity where the
code will wait on IO, even if there is no IO in flight.  This problem is
notable especially when the system scans through many unfreeable pages,
causing unnecessary stalls in the VM.

Additionally, tasks without __GFP_FS or __GFP_IO in the direct reclaim path
will sleep if a significant number of pages are encountered that should be
written out.  This gives kswapd a chance to write out those pages, while
the direct reclaim task sleeps.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:19 -08:00
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allocpercpu.c PERCPU : __percpu_alloc_mask() can dynamically size percpu_data storage 2008-02-06 10:41:04 -08:00
backing-dev.c mm/backing-dev.c: fix percpu_counter_destroy call bug in bdi_init 2007-12-05 09:21:18 -08:00
bootmem.c [PATCH] remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL'ed symbols 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
bounce.c block: Initial support for data-less (or empty) barrier support 2007-10-16 11:03:56 +02:00
dmapool.c pool: Improve memory usage for devices which can't cross boundaries 2007-12-04 10:39:58 -05:00
fadvise.c check ADVICE of fadvise64_64 even if get_xip_page is given 2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
filemap_xip.c Pagecache zeroing: zero_user_segment, zero_user_segments and zero_user 2008-02-05 09:44:13 -08:00
filemap.c mem-controller gfp-mask fix 2008-02-07 08:42:19 -08:00
fremap.c sys_remap_file_pages: fix ->vm_file accounting 2008-02-05 09:44:07 -08:00
highmem.c mm: remove fastcall from mm/ 2008-02-05 09:44:18 -08:00
hugetlb.c mm: fix PageUptodate data race 2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
internal.h set_page_refcounted() VM_BUG_ON fix 2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
Kconfig sh: Bump number of quicklists for SH-5. 2008-01-28 13:18:55 +09:00
madvise.c speed up madvise_need_mmap_write() usage 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Makefile Memory controller: cgroups setup 2008-02-07 08:42:18 -08:00
memcontrol.c memcontrol: move oom task exclusion to tasklist scan 2008-02-07 08:42:19 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c Page allocator: clean up pcp draining functions 2008-02-05 09:44:17 -08:00
memory.c Memory controller: make charging gfp mask aware 2008-02-07 08:42:19 -08:00
mempolicy.c Migration: find correct vma in new_vma_page() 2007-11-14 18:45:38 -08:00
mempool.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
migrate.c Memory controller: make charging gfp mask aware 2008-02-07 08:42:19 -08:00
mincore.c [PATCH] mincore: vma crossing fix 2007-02-15 09:57:03 -08:00
mlock.c do not limit locked memory when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is RLIM_INFINITY 2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
mmap.c brk: check the lower bound properly 2008-02-06 22:39:44 +01:00
mmzone.c [PATCH] remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL'ed symbols 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
mprotect.c fix mprotect vma_wants_writenotify prot 2007-10-23 08:32:06 -07:00
mremap.c sparse pointer use of zero as null 2007-10-18 14:37:31 -07:00
msync.c Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
nommu.c nommu: add new vmalloc_user() and remap_vmalloc_range() interfaces. 2008-02-05 09:44:21 -08:00
oom_kill.c oom: add sysctl to enable task memory dump 2008-02-07 08:42:19 -08:00
page_alloc.c Memory controller: memory accounting 2008-02-07 08:42:18 -08:00
page_io.c mm: fix PageUptodate data race 2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
page_isolation.c memory hotremove: unset migrate type "ISOLATE" after removal 2007-11-14 18:45:38 -08:00
page-writeback.c writeback: speed up writeback of big dirty files 2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
pagewalk.c maps4: introduce a generic page walker 2008-02-05 09:44:16 -08:00
pdflush.c Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
prio_tree.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
quicklist.c quicklists: Only consider memory that can be used with GFP_KERNEL 2008-01-14 08:52:22 -08:00
readahead.c mm: bdi init hooks 2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
rmap.c Memory controller: make page_referenced() cgroup aware 2008-02-07 08:42:19 -08:00
shmem_acl.c [PATCH] Fix typos in mm/shmem_acl.c 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
shmem.c VFS/Security: Rework inode_getsecurity and callers to return resulting buffer 2008-02-05 09:44:20 -08:00
slab.c cpu-hotplug: replace per-subsystem mutexes with get_online_cpus() 2008-01-25 21:08:02 +01:00
slob.c slob: reduce external fragmentation by using three free lists 2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
slub.c SLUB: Do not upset lockdep 2008-02-04 10:56:02 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c memory hotplug fix: fix section mismatch in vmammap_allock_block() 2007-11-29 09:24:54 -08:00
sparse.c mm: fix section mismatch warning in sparse.c 2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
swap_state.c memory controller BUG_ON() 2008-02-07 08:42:19 -08:00
swap.c Memory controller: add per cgroup LRU and reclaim 2008-02-07 08:42:18 -08:00
swapfile.c memcgroup: reinstate swapoff mod 2008-02-07 08:42:19 -08:00
thrash.c Bug in mm/thrash.c function grab_swap_token() 2007-05-11 08:29:32 -07:00
tiny-shmem.c Remove unused code from mm/tiny-shmem.c 2008-02-05 09:44:17 -08:00
truncate.c page migraton: handle orphaned pages 2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
util.c fix mm/util.c:krealloc() 2007-11-14 18:45:41 -08:00
vmalloc.c mm: don't allow ioremapping of ranges larger than vmalloc space 2008-02-05 09:44:18 -08:00
vmscan.c kswapd should only wait on IO if there is IO 2008-02-07 08:42:19 -08:00
vmstat.c vmstat: remove prefetch 2008-02-05 09:44:18 -08:00