On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 03:04:29PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > @@ -2428,10 +2448,11 @@ static bool shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc, > reclaimed = sc->nr_reclaimed; > scanned = sc->nr_scanned; > > + sc->reclaim_idx = reclaim_idx; > shrink_zone_memcg(zone, memcg, sc, &lru_pages); > zone_lru_pages += lru_pages; The setting of sc->reclaim_idx is unexpected here. Why not set it in the caller and eliminate the reclaim_idx parameter? > @@ -2558,16 +2579,12 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc) > sc->gfp_mask |= __GFP_HIGHMEM; > > for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist, > - requested_highidx, sc->nodemask) { It's unfortunate that we start with the lowest zone here. For Normal allocations, the most common allocations, this will always have two full shrink_node() rounds that skip over everything >DMA in the first, then over everything >DMA32 in the second, even though all pages on the node are valid reclaim candidates for that allocation. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>