From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>

Make shrink_all_memory() repeat the attempts to free more memory if there
seems to be no pages to free.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 mm/vmscan.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~mm-make-shrink_all_memory-try-harder mm/vmscan.c
--- devel/mm/vmscan.c~mm-make-shrink_all_memory-try-harder	2006-03-11 02:46:24.000000000 -0800
+++ devel-akpm/mm/vmscan.c	2006-03-11 02:46:24.000000000 -0800
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include <linux/cpuset.h>
 #include <linux/notifier.h>
 #include <linux/rwsem.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
 
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include <asm/div64.h>
@@ -1784,11 +1785,13 @@ unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned
 	pg_data_t *pgdat;
 	unsigned long nr_to_free = nr_pages;
 	unsigned long ret = 0;
+	unsigned retry = 2;
 	struct reclaim_state reclaim_state = {
 		.reclaimed_slab = 0,
 	};
 
 	current->reclaim_state = &reclaim_state;
+repeat:
 	for_each_pgdat(pgdat) {
 		unsigned long freed;
 
@@ -1798,6 +1801,10 @@ unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned
 		if ((long)nr_to_free <= 0)
 			break;
 	}
+	if (retry-- && ret < nr_pages) {
+		blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/5);
+		goto repeat;
+	}
 	current->reclaim_state = NULL;
 	return ret;
 }
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