From a8d0143730d7b42c9fe6d1435d92ecce6863a62a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Weiner Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 15:20:15 -0800 Subject: mm: page_alloc: generalize the dirty balance reserve The dirty balance reserve that dirty throttling has to consider is merely memory not available to userspace allocations. There is nothing writeback-specific about it. Generalize the name so that it's reusable outside of that context. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page-writeback.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c') diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index d15d88c8efa1..6fe7d15bd1f7 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -278,7 +278,12 @@ static unsigned long zone_dirtyable_memory(struct zone *zone) unsigned long nr_pages; nr_pages = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES); - nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, zone->dirty_balance_reserve); + /* + * Pages reserved for the kernel should not be considered + * dirtyable, to prevent a situation where reclaim has to + * clean pages in order to balance the zones. + */ + nr_pages -= min(nr_pages, zone->totalreserve_pages); nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE); nr_pages += zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE); @@ -332,7 +337,12 @@ static unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void) unsigned long x; x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES); - x -= min(x, dirty_balance_reserve); + /* + * Pages reserved for the kernel should not be considered + * dirtyable, to prevent a situation where reclaim has to + * clean pages in order to balance the zones. + */ + x -= min(x, totalreserve_pages); x += global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE); x += global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2