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Johannes Weiner 795ae7a0de mm: scale kswapd watermarks in proportion to memory 
In machines with 140G of memory and enterprise flash storage, we have
seen read and write bursts routinely exceed the kswapd watermarks and
cause thundering herds in direct reclaim.  Unfortunately, the only way
to tune kswapd aggressiveness is through adjusting min_free_kbytes - the
system's emergency reserves - which is entirely unrelated to the
system's latency requirements.  In order to get kswapd to maintain a
250M buffer of free memory, the emergency reserves need to be set to 1G.
That is a lot of memory wasted for no good reason.

On the other hand, it's reasonable to assume that allocation bursts and
overall allocation concurrency scale with memory capacity, so it makes
sense to make kswapd aggressiveness a function of that as well.

Change the kswapd watermark scale factor from the currently fixed 25% of
the tunable emergency reserve to a tunable 0.1% of memory.

Beyond 1G of memory, this will produce bigger watermark steps than the
current formula in default settings.  Ensure that the new formula never
chooses steps smaller than that, i.e.  25% of the emergency reserve.

On a 140G machine, this raises the default watermark steps - the
distance between min and low, and low and high - from 16M to 143M.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 		2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
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bpf bpf: fix branch offset adjustment on backjumps after patching ctx expansion 2016-02-10 16:56:47 -05:00
configs
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debug mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to disable read-only kernel mappings 2016-02-22 08:51:37 +01:00
events Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-15 09:32:27 -07:00
gcov gcov: use within_module() helper. 2015-12-04 22:46:25 +01:00
irq Power management and ACPI material for v4.6-rc1, part 1 2016-03-16 14:10:53 -07:00
livepatch livepatch: Cleanup module page permission changes 2015-12-04 22:51:07 +01:00
locking tags: Fix DEFINE_PER_CPU expansions 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
power Power management and ACPI material for v4.6-rc1, part 1 2016-03-16 14:10:53 -07:00
printk kernel: printk: specify alignment for struct printk_log 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
rcu Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-03-16 11:51:08 -07:00
sched Power management and ACPI material for v4.6-rc1, part 1 2016-03-16 14:10:53 -07:00
time Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-15 12:13:56 -07:00
trace Power management and ACPI material for v4.6-rc1, part 1 2016-03-16 14:10:53 -07:00
.gitignore certs: add .gitignore to stop git nagging about x509_certificate_list 2015-10-21 15:18:35 +01:00
Kconfig.freezer
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Kconfig.hz
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Kconfig.locks
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Kconfig.preempt
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Makefile sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86) 2015-09-11 15:21:34 -07:00
acct.c
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async.c async: export current_is_async() 2015-11-19 17:51:48 +01:00
audit.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2016-01-17 19:13:15 -08:00
audit.h security: Make inode argument of inode_getsecid non-const 2015-12-24 11:09:39 -05:00
audit_fsnotify.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
audit_tree.c audit: audit_tree_match can be boolean 2015-11-04 08:23:51 -05:00
audit_watch.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
auditfilter.c audit: fix comment block whitespace 2015-11-04 08:23:51 -05:00
auditsc.c security: Make inode argument of inode_getsecid non-const 2015-12-24 11:09:39 -05:00
backtracetest.c
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bounds.c
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capability.c
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cgroup.c cgroup: make sure a parent css isn't freed before its children 2016-01-22 10:42:58 -05:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup: kill cgrp_ss_priv[CGROUP_CANFORK_COUNT] and friends 2015-12-03 10:24:08 -05:00
cgroup_pids.c cgroup_pids: fix a typo. 2015-12-14 14:54:37 -05:00
compat.c
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configs.c
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context_tracking.c context_tracking: Switch to new static_branch API 2015-11-24 09:56:43 +01:00
cpu.c cpu/hotplug: Document states better 2016-03-12 20:57:38 +01:00
cpu_pm.c kernel/cpu_pm: fix cpu_cluster_pm_exit comment 2015-09-03 02:42:20 +02:00
cpuset.c cpuset: make mm migration asynchronous 2016-01-22 10:22:46 -05:00
crash_dump.c
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cred.c kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
delayacct.c kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
dma.c
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elfcore.c
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exec_domain.c
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exit.c exit: remove unneeded declaration of exit_mm() 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
extable.c kernel/extable.c: remove duplicated include 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
fork.c mm: memcontrol: report kernel stack usage in cgroup2 memory.stat 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
freezer.c
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futex.c futex: Replace barrier() in unqueue_me() with READ_ONCE() 2016-03-08 17:04:02 +01:00
futex_compat.c ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
groups.c
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hung_task.c
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irq_work.c treewide: Remove old email address 2015-11-23 09:44:58 +01:00
jump_label.c treewide: Remove old email address 2015-11-23 09:44:58 +01:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
kcmp.c ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
kexec.c kexec: set KEXEC_TYPE_CRASH before sanity_check_segment_list() 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
kexec_core.c kexec: Set IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM for System RAM 2016-01-30 09:49:57 +01:00
kexec_file.c x86, kexec, nvdimm: Use walk_iomem_res_desc() for iomem search 2016-01-30 09:49:59 +01:00
kexec_internal.h kexec: move some memembers and definitions within the scope of CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
kmod.c kmod: don't run async usermode helper as a child of kworker thread 2015-10-23 17:55:10 +09:00
kprobes.c
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ksysfs.c rcu: Remove TINY_RCU bloat from pointless boot parameters 2015-12-07 16:59:37 -08:00
kthread.c kernel/kthread.c:kthread_create_on_node(): clarify documentation 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
latencytop.c sched/debug: Make schedstats a runtime tunable that is disabled by default 2016-02-09 11:54:23 +01:00
membarrier.c sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86) 2015-09-11 15:21:34 -07:00
memremap.c mm: fix two typos in comments for to_vmem_altmap() 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
module-internal.h
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module.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching 2016-02-18 16:34:15 -08:00
module_signing.c KEYS: Merge the type-specific data with the payload data 2015-10-21 15:18:36 +01:00
notifier.c Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-09-01 08:40:25 -07:00
nsproxy.c
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padata.c
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panic.c printk: do cond_resched() between lines while outputting to consoles 2016-01-16 11:17:25 -08:00
params.c Nothing exciting, minor tweaks and cleanups. 2015-11-09 15:53:39 -08:00
pid.c Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-01-31 15:44:04 -08:00
pid_namespace.c
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profile.c sched/debug: Make schedstats a runtime tunable that is disabled by default 2016-02-09 11:54:23 +01:00
ptrace.c ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
range.c
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reboot.c kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
relay.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
resource.c resource: Export insert_resource and remove_resource 2016-03-09 11:07:20 -08:00
seccomp.c seccomp: always propagate NO_NEW_PRIVS on tsync 2016-01-27 07:38:25 -08:00
signal.c signals: avoid random wakeups in sigsuspend() 2016-02-05 18:10:40 -08:00
smp.c Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-15 13:50:29 -07:00
smpboot.c cpu/hotplug: Unpark smpboot threads from the state machine 2016-03-01 20:36:56 +01:00
smpboot.h cpu/hotplug: Create hotplug threads 2016-03-01 20:36:56 +01:00
softirq.c sched/debug: Fix preempt_disable_ip recording for preempt_disable() 2016-02-29 09:53:10 +01:00
stacktrace.c
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stop_machine.c kernel/stop_machine.c: remove CONFIG_SMP dependencies 2016-01-16 11:17:24 -08:00
sys.c prctl: take mmap sem for writing to protect against others 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
sys_ni.c vfs: add copy_file_range syscall and vfs helper 2015-12-01 14:00:53 -05:00
sysctl.c mm: scale kswapd watermarks in proportion to memory 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c
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task_work.c task_work: remove fifo ordering guarantee 2015-09-05 13:46:58 -07:00
taskstats.c
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test_kprobes.c
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torture.c torture: Consolidate cond_resched_rcu_qs() into stutter_wait() 2015-10-06 11:25:01 -07:00
tracepoint.c tracepoint: Give priority to probes of tracepoints 2015-10-25 21:33:54 -04:00
tsacct.c time, acct: Drop irq save & restore from __acct_update_integrals() 2016-02-29 09:53:09 +01:00
uid16.c
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up.c
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user-return-notifier.c
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user.c
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user_namespace.c kernel/*: switch to memdup_user_nul() 2016-01-04 10:27:55 -05:00
utsname.c
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utsname_sysctl.c
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watchdog.c watchdog: don't run proc_watchdog_update if new value is same as old 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
workqueue.c tags: Fix DEFINE_PER_CPU expansions 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h
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