vmscan: force scan offline memory cgroups
authorVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:25:55 +0000 (15:25 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 12 Feb 2015 01:06:02 +0000 (17:06 -0800)
commit90cbc2508827e1e15dca23361c33cc26dd2b9e99
tree2506a694871a0b916c60990b945b883a334791d5
parent81422f29c5f4fb968023f465218c3d978c133ceb
vmscan: force scan offline memory cgroups

Since commit b2052564e66d ("mm: memcontrol: continue cache reclaim from
offlined groups") pages charged to a memory cgroup are not reparented when
the cgroup is removed.  Instead, they are supposed to be reclaimed in a
regular way, along with pages accounted to online memory cgroups.

However, an lruvec of an offline memory cgroup will sooner or later get so
small that it will be scanned only at low scan priorities (see
get_scan_count()).  Therefore, if there are enough reclaimable pages in
big lruvecs, pages accounted to offline memory cgroups will never be
scanned at all, wasting memory.

Fix this by unconditionally forcing scanning dead lruvecs from kswapd.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/memcontrol.h
mm/memcontrol.c
mm/vmscan.c