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-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c31
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index bee53495a829..cd5dc3faaa57 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1780,6 +1780,20 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec,
set_bit(PGDAT_WRITEBACK, &pgdat->flags);
/*
+ * If dirty pages are scanned that are not queued for IO, it
+ * implies that flushers are not doing their job. This can
+ * happen when memory pressure pushes dirty pages to the end of
+ * the LRU before the dirty limits are breached and the dirty
+ * data has expired. It can also happen when the proportion of
+ * dirty pages grows not through writes but through memory
+ * pressure reclaiming all the clean cache. And in some cases,
+ * the flushers simply cannot keep up with the allocation
+ * rate. Nudge the flusher threads in case they are asleep.
+ */
+ if (stat.nr_unqueued_dirty == nr_taken)
+ wakeup_flusher_threads(WB_REASON_VMSCAN);
+
+ /*
* Legacy memcg will stall in page writeback so avoid forcibly
* stalling here.
*/
@@ -1791,22 +1805,9 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec,
if (stat.nr_dirty && stat.nr_dirty == stat.nr_congested)
set_bit(PGDAT_CONGESTED, &pgdat->flags);
- /*
- * If dirty pages are scanned that are not queued for IO, it
- * implies that flushers are not doing their job. This can
- * happen when memory pressure pushes dirty pages to the end of
- * the LRU before the dirty limits are breached and the dirty
- * data has expired. It can also happen when the proportion of
- * dirty pages grows not through writes but through memory
- * pressure reclaiming all the clean cache. And in some cases,
- * the flushers simply cannot keep up with the allocation
- * rate. Nudge the flusher threads in case they are asleep, but
- * also allow kswapd to start writing pages during reclaim.
- */
- if (stat.nr_unqueued_dirty == nr_taken) {
- wakeup_flusher_threads(WB_REASON_VMSCAN);
+ /* Allow kswapd to start writing pages during reclaim. */
+ if (stat.nr_unqueued_dirty == nr_taken)
set_bit(PGDAT_DIRTY, &pgdat->flags);
- }
/*
* If kswapd scans pages marked marked for immediate