From 5515061d22f0f9976ae7815864bfd22042d36848 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:44:35 -0700 Subject: mm: throttle direct reclaimers if PF_MEMALLOC reserves are low and swap is backed by network storage If swap is backed by network storage such as NBD, there is a risk that a large number of reclaimers can hang the system by consuming all PF_MEMALLOC reserves. To avoid these hangs, the administrator must tune min_free_kbytes in advance which is a bit fragile. This patch throttles direct reclaimers if half the PF_MEMALLOC reserves are in use. If the system is routinely getting throttled the system administrator can increase min_free_kbytes so degradation is smoother but the system will keep running. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: David Miller Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mike Christie Cc: Eric B Munson Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/mmzone.h') diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 64b2c3a48286..2daa54f55db7 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -705,6 +705,7 @@ typedef struct pglist_data { range, including holes */ int node_id; wait_queue_head_t kswapd_wait; + wait_queue_head_t pfmemalloc_wait; struct task_struct *kswapd; /* Protected by lock_memory_hotplug() */ int kswapd_max_order; enum zone_type classzone_idx; -- cgit v1.2.3