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Mina Almasry authored
Reclaiming directly from top tier nodes breaks the aging pipeline of
memory tiers.  If we have a RAM -> CXL -> storage hierarchy, we should
demote from RAM to CXL and from CXL to storage.  If we reclaim a page from
RAM, it means we 'demote' it directly from RAM to storage, bypassing
potentially a huge amount of pages colder than it in CXL.

However disabling reclaim from top tier nodes entirely would cause ooms in
edge scenarios where lower tier memory is unreclaimable for whatever
reason, e.g.  memory being mlocked() or too hot to reclaim.  In these
cases we would rather the job run with a performance regression rather
than it oom altogether.

However, we can disable reclaim from top tier nodes for proactive reclaim.
That reclaim is not real memory pressure, and we don't have any cause to
be breaking the aging pipeline.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: restore comment layout, per Ying Huang]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221201233317.1394958-1-almasrymina@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarMina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatar"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarYang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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