On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index bf72055..5a27896 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1899,6 +1899,12 @@ rebalance:
> if (should_alloc_retry(gfp_mask, order, pages_reclaimed)) {
> /* Wait for some write requests to complete then retry */
> congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
> +
> + /*
> + * While we wait congestion wait, Amount of free memory can
> + * be changed dramatically. Thus, we kick kswapd again.
> + */
> + wake_all_kswapd(order, zonelist, high_zoneidx);
> goto rebalance;
> }
>
We're blocking to finish writeback of the directly reclaimed memory, why
do we need to wake kswapd afterwards?
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