mm: make drop_caches keep reclaiming on all nodes

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Currently, drop_caches are reclaiming node-by-node, looping on each node
until reclaim could not make progress.  This can however leave quite some
slab entries (such as filesystem inodes) unreclaimed if objects say on
node 1 keep objects on node 0 pinned.  So move the "loop until no
progress" loop to the node-by-node iteration to retry reclaim also on
other nodes if reclaim on some nodes made progress.  This fixes problem
when drop_caches was not reclaiming lots of otherwise perfectly fine to
reclaim inodes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221115123255.12559-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: You Zhou <you.zhou@intel.com>
Reported-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Jan Kara 2022-11-15 13:32:55 +01:00 • committed by Andrew Morton

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