Johannes Weiner 4852614996 mm/page-writeback.c: do not count anon pages as dirtyable memory ... commit a1c3bfb2f6 upstream. The VM is currently heavily tuned to avoid swapping. Whether that is good or bad is a separate discussion, but as long as the VM won't swap to make room for dirty cache, we can not consider anonymous pages when calculating the amount of dirtyable memory, the baseline to which dirty_background_ratio and dirty_ratio are applied. A simple workload that occupies a significant size (40+%, depending on memory layout, storage speeds etc.) of memory with anon/tmpfs pages and uses the remainder for a streaming writer demonstrates this problem. In that case, the actual cache pages are a small fraction of what is considered dirtyable overall, which results in an relatively large portion of the cache pages to be dirtied. As kswapd starts rotating these, random tasks enter direct reclaim and stall on IO. Only consider free pages and file pages dirtyable. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Tested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>		2014-02-13 13:48:00 -08:00
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acpi	ACPI / hotplug: Fix conflicted PCI bridge notify handlers	2013-12-04 10:57:04 -08:00
asm-generic	mm: fix TLB flush race between migration, and change_protection_range	2014-01-09 12:24:23 -08:00
clocksource	clocksource: arch_timer: use virtual counters	2014-01-09 12:24:26 -08:00
crypto	crypto: scatterwalk - Use sg_chain_ptr on chain entries	2013-12-11 22:36:29 -08:00
drm	drm/radeon: 0x9649 is SUMO2 not SUMO	2014-01-09 12:24:22 -08:00
dt-bindings
keys
linux	mm/page-writeback.c: do not count anon pages as dirtyable memory	2014-02-13 13:48:00 -08:00
math-emu
media	media: v4l2: added missing mutex.h include to v4l2-ctrls.h	2013-09-26 17:18:26 -07:00
memory
misc
net	netfilter: push reasm skb through instead of original frag skbs	2013-12-08 07:29:25 -08:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma
rxrpc
scsi	SCSI: Disable WRITE SAME for RAID and virtual host adapter drivers	2013-12-11 22:36:28 -08:00
sound	ALSA: memalloc.h - fix wrong truncation of dma_addr_t	2013-12-20 07:45:06 -08:00
target	target/file: Update hw_max_sectors based on current block_size	2014-01-09 12:24:20 -08:00
trace	tracing: Allow events to have NULL strings	2013-12-04 10:57:17 -08:00
uapi	ALSA: compress: Fix 64bit ABI incompatibility	2013-12-20 07:45:06 -08:00
video	Merge branch 'fbdev-3.10-fixes' of git://gitorious.org/linux-omap-dss2/linux into linux-fbdev/for-3.10-fixes	2013-05-29 17:00:34 +08:00
xen	xenbus: delay xenbus frontend resume if xenstored is not running	2013-05-29 09:04:19 -04:00
Kbuild	UAPI: remove empty Kbuild files	2013-04-30 17:04:09 -07:00