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mm: account for the number of times direct reclaimers get throttled
Under significant pressure when writing back to network-backed storage, direct reclaimers may get throttled. This is expected to be a short-lived event and the processes get woken up again but processes do get stalled. This patch counts how many times such stalling occurs. It's up to the administrator whether to reduce these stalls by increasing min_free_kbytes. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ enum vm_event_item { PGPGIN, PGPGOUT, PSWPIN, PSWPOUT,
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FOR_ALL_ZONES(PGSTEAL_DIRECT),
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FOR_ALL_ZONES(PGSCAN_KSWAPD),
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FOR_ALL_ZONES(PGSCAN_DIRECT),
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PGSCAN_DIRECT_THROTTLE,
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#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
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PGSCAN_ZONE_RECLAIM_FAILED,
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#endif
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@ -2167,6 +2167,9 @@ static void throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask, struct zonelist *zonelist,
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if (pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat))
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return;
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/* Account for the throttling */
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count_vm_event(PGSCAN_DIRECT_THROTTLE);
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/*
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* If the caller cannot enter the filesystem, it's possible that it
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* is due to the caller holding an FS lock or performing a journal
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@ -745,6 +745,7 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
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TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgsteal_direct")
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TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgscan_kswapd")
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TEXTS_FOR_ZONES("pgscan_direct")
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"pgscan_direct_throttle",
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#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
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"zone_reclaim_failed",
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