[PATCH] mm: make shrink_all_memory try harder
Make shrink_all_memory() repeat the attempts to free more memory if there
seems to be no pages to free.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index f713e9f..548e023 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
#include <linux/cpuset.h>
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
#include <asm/div64.h>
@@ -1784,11 +1785,13 @@
pg_data_t *pgdat;
unsigned long nr_to_free = nr_pages;
unsigned long ret = 0;
+ unsigned retry = 2;
struct reclaim_state reclaim_state = {
.reclaimed_slab = 0,
};
current->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;
+repeat:
for_each_pgdat(pgdat) {
unsigned long freed;
@@ -1798,6 +1801,10 @@
if ((long)nr_to_free <= 0)
break;
}
+ if (retry-- && ret < nr_pages) {
+ blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/5);
+ goto repeat;
+ }
current->reclaim_state = NULL;
return ret;
}