On 22/04/14 12:55, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> While preparing/testing some KVM on s390 patches for the next merge window
> (target is kvm/next which is based on 3.15-rc1) I faced a very severe
> performance hickup on guest paging (all anonymous memory).
>
> All memory bound guests are in "D" state now and the system is barely
> unusable.
>
> Reverting commit 0bf1457f0cfca7bc026a82323ad34bcf58ad035d
> "mm: vmscan: do not swap anon pages just because free+file is low" makes the
> problem go away.
>
> According to /proc/vmstat the system is now in direct reclaim almost all the
> time for every page fault (more than 10x more direct reclaims than kswap
> reclaims)
> With the patch being reverted everything is fine again.
>
> Any ideas?
Here is an idea to tackle my problem and the original problem:
reverting 0bf1457f0cfca7bc026a82323ad34bcf58ad035d + checking against low,
also seems to make my system usable.
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1923,7 +1923,7 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct
scan_control *sc,
*/
if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
free = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
- if (unlikely(file + free <= high_wmark_pages(zone))) {
+ if (unlikely(file + free <= low_wmark_pages(zone))) {
scan_balance = SCAN_ANON;
goto out;
}
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