Always check for unbalanced aging in thrashing_recovery_readahead(), and
account RA_EVENT_READAHEAD_MUTILATE/RA_EVENT_READAHEAD_THRASHING events.
Unbalanced zone/node aging can come from abnormal system loads, or
misconfigured NUMA policies.
Thrashings are rare events, hence the cost of probe_page() is not a concern.
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
mm/readahead.c | 11 ++++-------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.21-rc3-mm2.orig/mm/readahead.c
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc3-mm2/mm/readahead.c
@@ -1546,14 +1546,11 @@ thrashing_recovery_readahead(struct addr
pgoff_t offset, unsigned long ra_max)
{
unsigned long ra_size;
+ int unbalanced_aging = probe_page(mapping, offset - 1);
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_READAHEAD
- if (probe_page(mapping, offset - 1))
- ra_account(ra, RA_EVENT_READAHEAD_MUTILATE,
- ra->readahead_index - offset);
- ra_account(ra, RA_EVENT_READAHEAD_THRASHING,
- ra->readahead_index - offset);
-#endif
+ ra_account(ra, unbalanced_aging ? RA_EVENT_READAHEAD_MUTILATE :
+ RA_EVENT_READAHEAD_THRASHING,
+ ra->readahead_index - offset);
if (offset < ra->ra_index) {
/*
--
-
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