From: KOSAKI Motohiro on
Now, shrink_slab() doesn't return number of reclaimed objects. IOW,
current shrink_all_slab() is broken. Thus instead we use reclaim_state
to detect no reclaimable slab objects.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 20 +++++++++-----------
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index d7256e0..bfa1975 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -300,18 +300,16 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab(struct zone *zone, unsigned long scanned, unsig
void shrink_all_slab(void)
{
struct zone *zone;
- unsigned long nr;
+ struct reclaim_state reclaim_state;

-again:
- nr = 0;
- for_each_zone(zone)
- nr += shrink_slab(zone, 1, 1, 1, GFP_KERNEL);
- /*
- * If we reclaimed less than 10 objects, might as well call
- * it a day. Nothing special about the number 10.
- */
- if (nr >= 10)
- goto again;
+ current->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;
+ do {
+ reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab = 0;
+ for_each_zone(zone)
+ shrink_slab(zone, 1, 1, 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ } while (reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab);
+
+ current->reclaim_state = NULL;
}

static inline int is_page_cache_freeable(struct page *page)
--
1.6.5.2



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