mm: vmscan: improve comment on low-page cache handling

[platform/adaptation/renesas_rcar/renesas_kernel.git] / mm / vmscan.c

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 68586c8..259f820 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1713,13 +1713,15 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
        file  = get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_ACTIVE_FILE) +
                get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE);
 
+       /*
+        * If it's foreseeable that reclaiming the file cache won't be
+        * enough to get the zone back into a desirable shape, we have
+        * to swap.  Better start now and leave the - probably heavily
+        * thrashing - remaining file pages alone.
+        */
        if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
-               free  = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
+               free = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
                if (unlikely(file + free <= high_wmark_pages(zone))) {
-                       /*
-                        * If we have very few page cache pages, force-scan
-                        * anon pages.
-                        */
                        fraction[0] = 1;
                        fraction[1] = 0;
                        denominator = 1;