The VM already avoids attempting to reclaim anon pages in various places,

But it doesn't avoid it for lumpy reclaim.

It shuffles lru list unnecessary so that it is pointless.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

mm/vmscan.c

@@ -935,6 +935,16 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
 			/* Check that we have not crossed a zone boundary. */
 			if (unlikely(page_zone_id(cursor_page) != zone_id))
 				continue;
+
+			/*
+			 * If we don't have enough swap space, reclaiming of
+			 * anon page which don't already have a swap slot is
+			 * pointless.
+			 */
+			if (nr_swap_pages <= 0 && PageAnon(cursor_page) &&
+					!PageSwapCache(cursor_page))
+				continue;
+
 			if (__isolate_lru_page(cursor_page, mode, file) == 0) {
 				list_move(&cursor_page->lru, dst);
 				mem_cgroup_del_lru(cursor_page);