diff --git a/include/linux/mm_inline.h b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
index 2eb59946..f451fed 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_inline.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
@@ -117,4 +117,23 @@
 	return lru;
 }
 
+/**
+ * inactive_anon_is_low - check if anonymous pages need to be deactivated
+ * @zone: zone to check
+ *
+ * Returns true if the zone does not have enough inactive anon pages,
+ * meaning some active anon pages need to be deactivated.
+ */
+static inline int inactive_anon_is_low(struct zone *zone)
+{
+	unsigned long active, inactive;
+
+	active = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON);
+	inactive = zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON);
+
+	if (inactive * zone->inactive_ratio < active)
+		return 1;
+
+	return 0;
+}
 #endif
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 59a4c8f..9c5111f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -323,6 +323,12 @@
 	 */
 	int prev_priority;
 
+	/*
+	 * The target ratio of ACTIVE_ANON to INACTIVE_ANON pages on
+	 * this zone's LRU.  Maintained by the pageout code.
+	 */
+	unsigned int inactive_ratio;
+
 
 	ZONE_PADDING(_pad2_)
 	/* Rarely used or read-mostly fields */
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 740a16a..79c0981 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4263,6 +4263,46 @@
 	calculate_totalreserve_pages();
 }
 
+/**
+ * setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio - called when min_free_kbytes changes.
+ *
+ * The inactive anon list should be small enough that the VM never has to
+ * do too much work, but large enough that each inactive page has a chance
+ * to be referenced again before it is swapped out.
+ *
+ * The inactive_anon ratio is the target ratio of ACTIVE_ANON to
+ * INACTIVE_ANON pages on this zone's LRU, maintained by the
+ * pageout code. A zone->inactive_ratio of 3 means 3:1 or 25% of
+ * the anonymous pages are kept on the inactive list.
+ *
+ * total     target    max
+ * memory    ratio     inactive anon
+ * -------------------------------------
+ *   10MB       1         5MB
+ *  100MB       1        50MB
+ *    1GB       3       250MB
+ *   10GB      10       0.9GB
+ *  100GB      31         3GB
+ *    1TB     101        10GB
+ *   10TB     320        32GB
+ */
+void setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio(void)
+{
+	struct zone *zone;
+
+	for_each_zone(zone) {
+		unsigned int gb, ratio;
+
+		/* Zone size in gigabytes */
+		gb = zone->present_pages >> (30 - PAGE_SHIFT);
+		ratio = int_sqrt(10 * gb);
+		if (!ratio)
+			ratio = 1;
+
+		zone->inactive_ratio = ratio;
+	}
+}
+
 /*
  * Initialise min_free_kbytes.
  *
@@ -4300,6 +4340,7 @@
 		min_free_kbytes = 65536;
 	setup_per_zone_pages_min();
 	setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve();
+	setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio();
 	return 0;
 }
 module_init(init_per_zone_pages_min)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index d10d2f9..c82ee9a 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1090,6 +1090,7 @@
 		__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON, -pgmoved);
 	spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
 
+	pgmoved = 0;
 	while (!list_empty(&l_hold)) {
 		cond_resched();
 		page = lru_to_page(&l_hold);
@@ -1098,6 +1099,13 @@
 	}
 
 	/*
+	 * Count the referenced pages as rotated, even when they are moved
+	 * to the inactive list.  This helps balance scan pressure between
+	 * file and anonymous pages in get_scan_ratio.
+ 	 */
+	zone->recent_rotated[!!file] += pgmoved;
+
+	/*
 	 * Now put the pages back on the appropriate [file or anon] inactive
 	 * and active lists.
 	 */
@@ -1158,7 +1166,6 @@
 		}
 	}
 	__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_LRU_BASE + lru, pgmoved);
-	zone->recent_rotated[!!file] += pgmoved;
 
 	__count_zone_vm_events(PGREFILL, zone, pgscanned);
 	__count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE, pgdeactivate);
@@ -1174,7 +1181,13 @@
 {
 	int file = is_file_lru(lru);
 
-	if (lru == LRU_ACTIVE_ANON || lru == LRU_ACTIVE_FILE) {
+	if (lru == LRU_ACTIVE_FILE) {
+		shrink_active_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc, priority, file);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	if (lru == LRU_ACTIVE_ANON &&
+	    (!scan_global_lru(sc) || inactive_anon_is_low(zone))) {
 		shrink_active_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc, priority, file);
 		return 0;
 	}
@@ -1310,8 +1323,8 @@
 		}
 	}
 
-	while (nr[LRU_ACTIVE_ANON] || nr[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] ||
-			nr[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] || nr[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE]) {
+	while (nr[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] || nr[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] ||
+					nr[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE]) {
 		for_each_lru(l) {
 			if (nr[l]) {
 				nr_to_scan = min(nr[l],
@@ -1324,6 +1337,15 @@
 		}
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Even if we did not try to evict anon pages at all, we want to
+	 * rebalance the anon lru active/inactive ratio.
+	 */
+	if (!scan_global_lru(sc) || inactive_anon_is_low(zone))
+		shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, zone, sc, priority, 0);
+	else if (!scan_global_lru(sc))
+		shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, zone, sc, priority, 0);
+
 	throttle_vm_writeout(sc->gfp_mask);
 	return nr_reclaimed;
 }
@@ -1617,6 +1639,14 @@
 			    priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
 				continue;
 
+			/*
+			 * Do some background aging of the anon list, to give
+			 * pages a chance to be referenced before reclaiming.
+			 */
+			if (inactive_anon_is_low(zone))
+				shrink_active_list(SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, zone,
+							&sc, priority, 0);
+
 			if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, zone->pages_high,
 					       0, 0)) {
 				end_zone = i;
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 27400b7..4380b0d 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -738,10 +738,12 @@
 	seq_printf(m,
 		   "\n  all_unreclaimable: %u"
 		   "\n  prev_priority:     %i"
-		   "\n  start_pfn:         %lu",
+		   "\n  start_pfn:         %lu"
+		   "\n  inactive_ratio:    %u",
 			   zone_is_all_unreclaimable(zone),
 		   zone->prev_priority,
-		   zone->zone_start_pfn);
+		   zone->zone_start_pfn,
+		   zone->inactive_ratio);
 	seq_putc(m, '\n');
 }