From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:31:27 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] oom: use unreclaimable info
X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=408d85441cd5a9bd6bc851d677a10c605ed8db5f;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git

[PATCH] oom: use unreclaimable info

__alloc_pages currently starts shooting if page reclaim has failed to free up
swap_cluster_max pages in one run through the priorities.  This is not always
a good indicator on its own, so make use of the all_unreclaimable logic as
well: don't consider going OOM until all zones we're interested in are
unreclaimable.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 16180587fd7d..ba18d0c36b83 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ struct scan_control {
 	int swap_cluster_max;
 
 	int swappiness;
+
+	int all_unreclaimable;
 };
 
 /*
@@ -925,6 +927,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zones(int priority, struct zone **zones,
 	unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
 	int i;
 
+	sc->all_unreclaimable = 1;
 	for (i = 0; zones[i] != NULL; i++) {
 		struct zone *zone = zones[i];
 
@@ -941,6 +944,8 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zones(int priority, struct zone **zones,
 		if (zone->all_unreclaimable && priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
 			continue;	/* Let kswapd poll it */
 
+		sc->all_unreclaimable = 0;
+
 		nr_reclaimed += shrink_zone(priority, zone, sc);
 	}
 	return nr_reclaimed;
@@ -1021,6 +1026,9 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zone **zones, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 		if (sc.nr_scanned && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
 			blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
 	}
+	/* top priority shrink_caches still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
+	if (!sc.all_unreclaimable)
+		ret = 1;
 out:
 	for (i = 0; zones[i] != 0; i++) {
 		struct zone *zone = zones[i];