Currently it's calculated once per zone in the zonelist. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index c5933a5..770735a 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1911,6 +1911,8 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask, unsigned int order, nodemask_t *allowednodes = NULL;/* zonelist_cache approximation */ int zlc_active = 0; /* set if using zonelist_cache */ int did_zlc_setup = 0; /* just call zlc_setup() one time */ + bool consider_zone_dirty = (alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) && + (gfp_mask & __GFP_WRITE); zonelist_scan: /* @@ -1969,8 +1971,7 @@ zonelist_scan: * will require awareness of zones in the * dirty-throttling and the flusher threads. */ - if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) && - (gfp_mask & __GFP_WRITE) && !zone_dirty_ok(zone)) + if (consider_zone_dirty && !zone_dirty_ok(zone)) continue; mark = zone->watermark[alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK]; -- 1.8.4.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html