vmscan: evict use-once pages first

When the file LRU lists are dominated by streaming IO pages, evict those
pages first, before considering evicting other pages.

This should be safe from deadlocks or performance problems
because only three things can happen to an inactive file page:

1) referenced twice and promoted to the active list
2) evicted by the pageout code
3) under IO, after which it will get evicted or promoted

The pages freed in this way can either be reused for streaming IO, or
allocated for something else.  If the pages are used for streaming IO,
this pageout pattern continues.  Otherwise, we will fall back to the
normal pageout pattern.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Elladan <elladan@eskimo.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 25b9ca93d232..45add35dda1b 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ extern void mem_cgroup_note_reclaim_priority(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
 extern void mem_cgroup_record_reclaim_priority(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
                                                         int priority);
 int mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
+int mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
 unsigned long mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
                                        struct zone *zone,
                                        enum lru_list lru);
@@ -239,6 +240,12 @@ mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
         return 1;
 }
 
+static inline int
+mem_cgroup_inactive_file_is_low(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+        return 1;
+}
+
 static inline unsigned long
 mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct zone *zone,
                          enum lru_list lru)