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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2017-02-24 14:56:17 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-02-24 17:46:54 -0800
commitbbef938429f5b201f9972f399a04f01af1934cc2 (patch)
tree5203c68222408be195d209e1133c63ddae3faec1 /mm
parent726d061fbd3658e4bfeffa1b8e82da97de2ca4dd (diff)
mm: vmscan: remove old flusher wakeup from direct reclaim path
Direct reclaim has been replaced by kswapd reclaim in pretty much all common memory pressure situations, so this code most likely doesn't accomplish the described effect anymore. The previous patch wakes up flushers for all reclaimers when we encounter dirty pages at the tail end of the LRU. Remove the crufty old direct reclaim invocation. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123181641.23938-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c17
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 83c92b866afe..ce2ee8331414 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2757,8 +2757,6 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
struct scan_control *sc)
{
int initial_priority = sc->priority;
- unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
- unsigned long writeback_threshold;
retry:
delayacct_freepages_start();
@@ -2771,7 +2769,6 @@ retry:
sc->nr_scanned = 0;
shrink_zones(zonelist, sc);
- total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim)
break;
@@ -2784,20 +2781,6 @@ retry:
*/
if (sc->priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
sc->may_writepage = 1;
-
- /*
- * Try to write back as many pages as we just scanned. This
- * tends to cause slow streaming writers to write data to the
- * disk smoothly, at the dirtying rate, which is nice. But
- * that's undesirable in laptop mode, where we *want* lumpy
- * writeout. So in laptop mode, write out the whole world.
- */
- writeback_threshold = sc->nr_to_reclaim + sc->nr_to_reclaim / 2;
- if (total_scanned > writeback_threshold) {
- wakeup_flusher_threads(laptop_mode ? 0 : total_scanned,
- WB_REASON_VMSCAN);
- sc->may_writepage = 1;
- }
} while (--sc->priority >= 0);
delayacct_freepages_end();