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Mel Gorman 132b0d21d2 mm/page_alloc: remove the throttling logic from the page allocator
The page allocator stalls based on the number of pages that are waiting
for writeback to start but this should now be redundant.
shrink_inactive_list() will wake flusher threads if the LRU tail are
unqueued dirty pages so the flusher should be active.  If it fails to
make progress due to pages under writeback not being completed quickly
then it should stall on VMSCAN_THROTTLE_WRITEBACK.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-6-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-11-06 13:30:40 -07:00
arch s390: use generic version of arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed() 2021-11-06 13:30:38 -07:00
block block-5.15-2021-10-29 2021-10-29 11:10:29 -07:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-08-30 12:57:10 -07:00
Documentation hugetlb: support node specified when using cma for gigantic hugepages 2021-11-06 13:30:39 -07:00
drivers arm64: support page mapping percpu first chunk allocator 2021-11-06 13:30:37 -07:00
fs fs: explicitly unregister per-superblock BDIs 2021-11-06 13:30:34 -07:00
include mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is being made 2021-11-06 13:30:40 -07:00
init mm: create a new system state and fix core_kernel_text() 2021-11-06 13:30:38 -07:00
ipc ipc: remove memcg accounting for sops objects in do_semtimedop() 2021-09-14 10:22:11 -07:00
kernel mm: make generic arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed() do what it says 2021-11-06 13:30:38 -07:00
lib lib/test_vmalloc.c: use swap() to make code cleaner 2021-11-06 13:30:37 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm mm/page_alloc: remove the throttling logic from the page allocator 2021-11-06 13:30:40 -07:00
net mptcp: fix corrupt receiver key in MPC + data + checksum 2021-10-28 08:19:06 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: Relicense bpf_insn.h as GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause 2021-09-29 16:03:55 +02:00
scripts Compiler Attributes: add __alloc_size() for better bounds checking 2021-11-06 13:30:33 -07:00
security Merge branch 'ucount-fixes-for-v5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2021-10-21 17:27:17 -10:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Fix microphone sound on Jieli webcam. 2021-10-19 08:07:01 +02:00
tools userfaultfd/selftests: fix calculation of expected ioctls 2021-11-06 13:30:39 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt KVM: Remove tlbs_dirty 2021-09-23 11:01:12 -04:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
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