On Friday, August 17, 2018 at 2:57:31 AM UTC+2, Marcus Linsner wrote:
> "For example, consider a case where you have zero swap and system is nearly
> running out of RAM. The kernel will take memory from e.g. Firefox (it can do
> this because Firefox is running executable code that has been loaded from
> disk - the code can be loaded from disk again if needed). If Firefox then
> needs to access that RAM again N seconds later, the CPU generates "hard
> fault" which forces Linux to free some RAM (e.g. take some RAM from another
> process), load the missing data from disk and then allow Firefox to continue
> as usual. This is pretty similar to normal swapping and kswapd0 does it. " -
> Mikko Rantalainen Feb 15 at 13:08
Good news: no more disk thrashing with this patch [1] (also attached) and I'm
keeping track of how to properly get rid of this disk thrashing in this [2].
Bad news: I made the patch and I've no idea how good it is(since I am noob :D)
and what are the side-effects of using it. Likely a better patch can be made!
(but none who know how to do it right have answered/helped yet :D so ... it's,
for me, better than nothing)
I'm not going to post here anymore, to allow OP to be answered (since, it seems
to be a different issue)
[1]
https://github.com/constantoverride/qubes-linux-kernel/blob/acd686a5019c7ab6ec10dc457bdee4830e2d741f/patches.addon/le9b.patch
[2] https://stackoverflow.com/q/52067753/10239615
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diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 32699b2..7636498 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ enum lru_list {
#define for_each_lru(lru) for (lru = 0; lru < NR_LRU_LISTS; lru++)
-#define for_each_evictable_lru(lru) for (lru = 0; lru <= LRU_ACTIVE_FILE; lru++)
+#define for_each_evictable_lru(lru) for (lru = 0; lru <= LRU_INACTIVE_FILE; lru++)
static inline int is_file_lru(enum lru_list lru)
{
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 03822f8..1f3ffb5 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2234,7 +2234,7 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
anon = lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON, MAX_NR_ZONES) +
lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_ANON, MAX_NR_ZONES);
- file = lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE, MAX_NR_ZONES) +
+ file = //lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE, MAX_NR_ZONES) +
lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE, MAX_NR_ZONES);
spin_lock_irq(&pgdat->lru_lock);
@@ -2345,7 +2345,7 @@ static void shrink_node_memcg(struct pglist_data *pgdat, struct mem_cgroup *memc
sc->priority == DEF_PRIORITY);
blk_start_plug(&plug);
- while (nr[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] || nr[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] ||
+ while (nr[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] || //nr[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] ||
nr[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE]) {
unsigned long nr_anon, nr_file, percentage;
unsigned long nr_scanned;
@@ -2372,7 +2372,8 @@ static void shrink_node_memcg(struct pglist_data *pgdat, struct mem_cgroup *memc
* stop reclaiming one LRU and reduce the amount scanning
* proportional to the original scan target.
*/
- nr_file = nr[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE] + nr[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE];
+ nr_file = nr[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE] //+ nr[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE]
+ ;
nr_anon = nr[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] + nr[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON];
/*
@@ -2391,7 +2392,8 @@ static void shrink_node_memcg(struct pglist_data *pgdat, struct mem_cgroup *memc
percentage = nr_anon * 100 / scan_target;
} else {
unsigned long scan_target = targets[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE] +
- targets[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] + 1;
+ //targets[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] +
+ 1;
lru = LRU_FILE;
percentage = nr_file * 100 / scan_target;
}
