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authorZhongkun He <hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com>2025-04-21 17:13:29 +0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-05-12 23:50:36 -0700
commitaded729f64d3eb1543abc7e6a3a20069716efb7d (patch)
tree58d7eb9c9aff95baf053caf7850131510fa62f87 /mm
parent68a1436bde00b40327efe27926076b53088775a3 (diff)
mm: vmscan: add more comments about cache_trim_mode
Add more comments for cache_trim_mode, and the annotations provided by Johannes Weiner in [1]. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250314141833.GA1316033@cmpxchg.org/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4baad87ba637f1e6f666e9b99b3fdcb7ab39171b.1745225696.git.hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Zhongkun He <hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 495889f621b5..ca786575b6c2 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2536,7 +2536,8 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
/*
* If there is enough inactive page cache, we do not reclaim
- * anything from the anonymous working right now.
+ * anything from the anonymous working right now to make sure
+ * a streaming file access pattern doesn't cause swapping.
*/
if (sc->cache_trim_mode) {
scan_balance = SCAN_FILE;