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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: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Yang 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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