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5/5 VM changes: reclaim_mapped-pressure.patch

From:  Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
To:  Linux Kernel Mailing List <Linux-Kernel@Vger.Kernel.ORG>
Subject:  [PATCH] 5/5 VM changes: reclaim_mapped-pressure.patch
Date:  Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:47:35 +0400


Use zone->pressure (rathar than scanning priority) to determine when to start
reclaiming mapped pages in refill_inactive_zone(). When using priority every
call to try_to_free_pages() starts with scanning parts of active list and
skipping mapped pages (because reclaim_mapped evaluates to 0 on low
priorities) no matter how high memory pressure is.



diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~reclaim_mapped-pressure mm/vmscan.c
--- i386/mm/vmscan.c~reclaim_mapped-pressure	Wed Jul  9 12:24:53 2003
+++ i386-god/mm/vmscan.c	Wed Jul  9 12:24:53 2003
@@ -95,6 +95,11 @@ static void zone_adj_pressure(struct zon
 	zone->pressure = expavg(zone->pressure, pass << 10, 1);
 }
 
+static int pressure_to_priority(int pressure)
+{
+	return DEF_PRIORITY - (pressure >> 10);
+}
+
 /*
  * The list of shrinker callbacks used by to apply pressure to
  * ageable caches.
@@ -685,7 +690,7 @@ refill_inactive_zone(struct zone *zone, 
 	 * `distress' is a measure of how much trouble we're having reclaiming
 	 * pages.  0 -> no problems.  100 -> great trouble.
 	 */
-	distress = 100 >> priority;
+	distress = 100 >> pressure_to_priority(zone->pressure);
 
 	/*
 	 * The point of this algorithm is to decide when to start reclaiming

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