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markj
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2020-10-02T19:16:06.590903Z
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V 862
vm_pageout: Avoid rounding down the inactive scan target

With helper page daemon threads, enabled by default in r364786, we
divide the inactive target by the number of threads, rounding down, and
sum the total number of pages freed by the threads.  This sum is
compared with the original target, but by rounding down we might lose
pages, causing the page daemon control loop to conclude that inactive
queue scanning isn't keeping up with demand for free pages.  Typically
this results in excessive swapping.

Fix the problem by accounting for the error in the main pagedaemon
thread's target.  Note that by default the problem will manifest only in
systems with >16 CPUs in a NUMA domain.

Reviewed by:	cem
Discussed with:	dougm
Reported and tested by:	dhw, glebius
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26610

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