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vmscan,tmpfs: treat used once pages on tmpfs as used once

When a page has PG_referenced, shrink_page_list() discards it only if it
is not dirty. This rule works fine if the backing filesystem is a regular
one. PG_dirty is a good signal that the page was used recently because
the flusher threads clean pages periodically. In addition, page writeback
is costlier than simple page discard.

However, when a page is on tmpfs this heuristic doesn't work because
flusher threads don't write back tmpfs pages. Consequently tmpfs pages
always rotate around the lru twice at least and adds unnecessary lru
churn. Simple tmpfs streaming io shouldn't cause large anonymous page
swap-out.

Remove this unncessary reclaim bonus of tmpfs pages.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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KOSAKI Motohiro and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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mm/vmscan.c
··· 651 651 } 652 652 653 653 /* Reclaim if clean, defer dirty pages to writeback */ 654 - if (referenced_page) 654 + if (referenced_page && !PageSwapBacked(page)) 655 655 return PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN; 656 656 657 657 return PAGEREF_RECLAIM;