linux_dsm_epyc7002/include
Mel Gorman 5515061d22 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 <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:46 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-07-26 14:28:55 -07:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-07-30 17:25:34 -07:00
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drm drm/exynos: add property for plane zpos 2012-07-27 11:13:54 +09:00
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linux mm: throttle direct reclaimers if PF_MEMALLOC reserves are low and swap is backed by network storage 2012-07-31 18:42:46 -07:00
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net netvm: set PF_MEMALLOC as appropriate during SKB processing 2012-07-31 18:42:46 -07:00
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rdma Merge branches 'cma', 'cxgb4', 'misc', 'mlx4-sriov', 'mlx-cleanups', 'ocrdma' and 'qib' into for-linus 2012-07-22 23:26:17 -07:00
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scsi Merge branch 'master' [vanilla Linus master] into libata-dev.git/upstream 2012-07-25 15:58:48 -04:00
sound Merge branch 'topic/pm-convert' into for-next 2012-07-19 08:21:57 +02:00
target target: Allow for target_submit_cmd() returning errors 2012-07-17 17:05:05 -07:00
trace mm: introduce __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to emergency reserves 2012-07-31 18:42:45 -07:00
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xen xen PVonHVM: move shared_info to MMIO before kexec 2012-07-19 15:52:05 -04:00
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