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Commit fe35004f authored by Satoru Moriya's avatar Satoru Moriya Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: avoid swapping out with swappiness==0



Sometimes we'd like to avoid swapping out anonymous memory.  In
particular, avoid swapping out pages of important process or process
groups while there is a reasonable amount of pagecache on RAM so that we
can satisfy our customers' requirements.

OTOH, we can control how aggressive the kernel will swap memory pages with
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness for global and
/sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.swappiness for each memcg.

But with current reclaim implementation, the kernel may swap out even if
we set swappiness=0 and there is pagecache in RAM.

This patch changes the behavior with swappiness==0.  If we set
swappiness==0, the kernel does not swap out completely (for global reclaim
until the amount of free pages and filebacked pages in a zone has been
reduced to something very very small (nr_free + nr_filebacked < high
watermark)).

Signed-off-by: default avatarSatoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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