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Commit 2ab051e1 authored by Jerome Marchand's avatar Jerome Marchand Committed by Linus Torvalds
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memcg, vmscan: Fix forced scan of anonymous pages



When memory cgoups are enabled, the code that decides to force to scan
anonymous pages in get_scan_count() compares global values (free,
high_watermark) to a value that is restricted to a memory cgroup (file).
It make the code over-eager to force anon scan.

For instance, it will force anon scan when scanning a memcg that is
mainly populated by anonymous page, even when there is plenty of file
pages to get rid of in others memcgs, even when swappiness == 0.  It
breaks user's expectation about swappiness and hurts performance.

This patch makes sure that forced anon scan only happens when there not
enough file pages for the all zone, not just in one random memcg.

[hannes@cmpxchg.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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