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mm, page_alloc: wake kswapd based on the highest eligible zone
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Thu, 28 Jul 2016 22:46:29 +0000 (15:46 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 28 Jul 2016 23:07:41 +0000 (16:07 -0700)
commita11cd49c650fa8db30337bd865583cfb75bed445
treeafef7abcb34b4a72e3a16c885fe2fc375440a303
parent16bcc0418491aaf29e8859659d9c0ac9b95eeffd
mm, page_alloc: wake kswapd based on the highest eligible zone

The ac_classzone_idx is used as the basis for waking kswapd and that is
based on the preferred zoneref.  If the preferred zoneref's first zone
is lower than what is available on other nodes, it's possible that
kswapd is woken on a zone with only higher, but still eligible, zones.
As classzone_idx is strictly adhered to now, it causes a problem because
eligible pages are skipped.

For example, node 0 has only DMA32 and node 1 has only NORMAL.  An
allocating context running on node 0 may wake kswapd on node 1 telling
it to skip all NORMAL pages.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-23-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c