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authorBob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>2014-02-17 19:11:39 +0800
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>2014-02-28 15:26:12 -0500
commitd4c7abdff73090a98e64d11dada4911ec29bcaea (patch)
treeec0dc6b7e961b75ce6d603ab798a0fec62d62cbd /drivers/xen
parent6cb606f102e45ea7c42cf3d812883489ba99ce5a (diff)
downloadlinux-d4c7abdff73090a98e64d11dada4911ec29bcaea.tar.bz2
drivers:xen-selfballoon:reset 'frontswap_inertia_counter' after frontswap_shrink
When I looked at this issue https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/21/158, I found that frontswap_selfshrink() doesn't work as expected sometimes. Pages are continuously added to frontswap and gotten back soon. It's a waste of cpu time and increases the memory pressue of Guest OS. Take an example. First time in frontswap_selfshrink(): 1. last_frontswap_pages = cur_frontswap_pages = 0 2. cur_frontswap_pages = frontswap_curr_pages() = 100 When 'frontswap_inertia_counter' decreased to 0: 1. last_frontswap_pages = cur_frontswap_pages = 100 2. cur_frontswap_pages = frontswap_curr_pages() = 100 3. call frontswap_shrink() and let's assumption that 10 pages are gotten back from frontswap. 4. now frontswap_curr_pages() is 90. If then memory is not enough in Guest OS and 9 more pages(smaller than gotten back) added to frontswap. Now frontswap_curr_pages() is 99 and we don't expect to get back more pages from frontswap because geust os is under memory pressure. But next time in frontswap_selfshrink(): 1. last_frontswap_pages is set to the old value of cur_frontswap_pages(still 100) 2. cur_frontswap_pages(99) is still smaller than last_frontswap_pages. 3. call frontswap_shrink() and continue to get back pages from frontswap!! Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/xen')
-rw-r--r--drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
index 745ad79c1d8e..3b2bffde534f 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c
@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ static void frontswap_selfshrink(void)
tgt_frontswap_pages = cur_frontswap_pages -
(cur_frontswap_pages / frontswap_hysteresis);
frontswap_shrink(tgt_frontswap_pages);
+ frontswap_inertia_counter = frontswap_inertia;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_FRONTSWAP */