[PATCH 14/14] mm: Account for the number of times direct reclaimers get throttled
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Date: 2011-10-06 12:42:49
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linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem:
memory management, memory management - core, memory management - mglru (multi-gen lru), memory management - reclaim, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Johannes Weiner, Linus Torvalds
Under significant pressure when writing back to network-backed storage, direct reclaimers may get throttled. This is expected to be a short-lived event and the processes get woken up again but processes do get stalled. This patch counts how many times such stalling occurs. It's up to the administrator whether to reduce these stalls by increasing min_free_kbytes. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> --- include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 1 + mm/vmscan.c | 1 + mm/vmstat.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
index 03b90cdc..652e5f3 100644
--- a/include/linux/vm_event_item.h
+++ b/include/linux/vm_event_item.h@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT, FOR_ALL_ZONES(PGSTEAL), FOR_ALL_ZONES(PGSCAN_KSWAPD), FOR_ALL_ZONES(PGSCAN_DIRECT), + PGSCAN_DIRECT_THROTTLE, #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA PGSCAN_ZONE_RECLAIM_FAILED, #endif
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index ca5ca02..6cb1aee 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c@@ -2258,6 +2258,7 @@ static void throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask, struct zonelist *zonelist, return; /* Throttle */ + count_vm_event(PGSCAN_DIRECT_THROTTLE); wait_event_killable(zone->zone_pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait, pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(zone->zone_pgdat, high_zoneidx)); }
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index d52b13d..96070b4 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c@@ -740,6 +740,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = { TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgsteal") TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgscan_kswapd") TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgscan_direct") + "pgscan_direct_throttle", #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA "zone_reclaim_failed",
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