mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle
authorYu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:36:58 +0000 (13:36 -0600)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 7 Oct 2022 21:28:39 +0000 (14:28 -0700)
commit14aa8b2d5c2ebead01b542f62d68029023054774
tree31f0ace9fb727fee9c89c916dea4c9614d75937e
parente55b9f96860f6c6026cff97966a740576285e07b
mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle

wakeup_flusher_threads() was added under the assumption that if a system
runs out of clean cold pages, it might want to write back dirty pages more
aggressively so that they can become clean and be dropped.

However, doing so can breach the rate limit a system wants to impose on
writeback, resulting in early SSD wearout.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YzSiWq9UEER5LKup@google.com
Fixes: bd74fdaea146 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: support page table walks")
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reported-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c