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authorZhongkun He <hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com>2025-04-21 17:13:30 +0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-05-12 23:50:36 -0700
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mm: add max swappiness arg to lru_gen for anonymous memory only
The MGLRU already supports reclaiming only from anonymous memory via the /sys/kernel/debug/lru_gen interface. Now, memory.reclaim also supports the swappiness=max parameter to enable reclaiming solely from anonymous memory. To unify the semantics of proactive reclaiming from anonymous folios, the max parameter is introduced. [hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com: use strcmp instead of strncmp, if swappiness is not set, use the default value] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250507071057.3184240-1-hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak coding style] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/65181f7745d657d664d833c26d8a94cae40538b9.1745225696.git.hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Zhongkun He <hezhongkun.hzk@bytedance.com> Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -151,8 +151,9 @@ generations less than or equal to ``min_gen_nr``.
``min_gen_nr`` should be less than ``max_gen_nr-1``, since
``max_gen_nr`` and ``max_gen_nr-1`` are not fully aged (equivalent to
the active list) and therefore cannot be evicted. ``swappiness``
-overrides the default value in ``/proc/sys/vm/swappiness``.
-``nr_to_reclaim`` limits the number of pages to evict.
+overrides the default value in ``/proc/sys/vm/swappiness`` and the valid
+range is [0-200, max], with max being exclusively used for the reclamation
+of anonymous memory. ``nr_to_reclaim`` limits the number of pages to evict.
A typical use case is that a job scheduler runs this command before it
tries to land a new job on a server. If it fails to materialize enough