commit 2e30244a7cc1ff09013a1238d415b4076406388e
author KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Tue Oct 26 14:21:46 2010 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tue Oct 26 16:52:08 2010 -0700
tree f555a78df877bbbd300ba3ebce6e31b5609e965f
parent 4cbec4c8b9fda9ec784086fe7f74cd32a8adda95

vmscan,tmpfs: treat used once pages on tmpfs as used once

When a page has PG_referenced, shrink_page_list() discards it only if it
is not dirty.  This rule works fine if the backing filesystem is a regular
one.  PG_dirty is a good signal that the page was used recently because
the flusher threads clean pages periodically.  In addition, page writeback
is costlier than simple page discard.

However, when a page is on tmpfs this heuristic doesn't work because
flusher threads don't write back tmpfs pages.  Consequently tmpfs pages
always rotate around the lru twice at least and adds unnecessary lru
churn.  Simple tmpfs streaming io shouldn't cause large anonymous page
swap-out.

Remove this unncessary reclaim bonus of tmpfs pages.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>