mm: throttle direct reclaimers if PF_MEMALLOC reserves are low and swap is backed by network storage
If swap is backed by network storage such as NBD, there is a risk that a
large number of reclaimers can hang the system by consuming all
PF_MEMALLOC reserves. To avoid these hangs, the administrator must tune
min_free_kbytes in advance which is a bit fragile.
This patch throttles direct reclaimers if half the PF_MEMALLOC reserves
are in use. If the system is routinely getting throttled the system
administrator can increase min_free_kbytes so degradation is smoother but
the system will keep running.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: David Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Neil Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Christie <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric B Munson <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index ef2d1e7..48aee0f 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4389,6 +4389,7 @@
pgdat_resize_init(pgdat);
pgdat->nr_zones = 0;
init_waitqueue_head(&pgdat->kswapd_wait);
+ init_waitqueue_head(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait);
pgdat->kswapd_max_order = 0;
pgdat_page_cgroup_init(pgdat);
