From f7b7fd8f3ebbb2810d6893295aa984acd0fd30db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rik van Riel Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:44:07 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] temporarily disable swap token on memory pressure Some users (hi Zwane) have seen a problem when running a workload that eats nearly all of physical memory - th system does an OOM kill, even when there is still a lot of swap free. The problem appears to be a very big task that is holding the swap token, and the VM has a very hard time finding any other page in the system that is swappable. Instead of ignoring the swap token when sc->priority reaches 0, we could simply take the swap token away from the memory hog and make sure we don't give it back to the memory hog for a few seconds. This patch resolves the problem Zwane ran into. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/swap.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/swap.h') diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h index 20c975642cab..508668f840b6 100644 --- a/include/linux/swap.h +++ b/include/linux/swap.h @@ -239,6 +239,11 @@ static inline void put_swap_token(struct mm_struct *mm) __put_swap_token(mm); } +static inline void disable_swap_token(void) +{ + put_swap_token(swap_token_mm); +} + #else /* CONFIG_SWAP */ #define total_swap_pages 0 @@ -283,6 +288,7 @@ static inline swp_entry_t get_swap_page(void) #define put_swap_token(x) do { } while(0) #define grab_swap_token() do { } while(0) #define has_swap_token(x) 0 +#define disable_swap_token() do { } while(0) #endif /* CONFIG_SWAP */ #endif /* __KERNEL__*/ -- cgit v1.2.2