Direct reclaim iterates over all zones in the zonelist and shrinking them but this is in conflict with node-based reclaim. In the default case, only shrink once per node. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 23 +++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 132d9a04de6b..a631972d49e1 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2547,14 +2547,6 @@ static inline bool compaction_ready(struct zone *zone, int order) * try to reclaim pages from zones which will satisfy the caller's allocation * request. * - * We reclaim from a zone even if that zone is over high_wmark_pages(zone). - * Because: - * a) The caller may be trying to free *extra* pages to satisfy a higher-order - * allocation or - * b) The target zone may be at high_wmark_pages(zone) but the lower zones - * must go *over* high_wmark_pages(zone) to satisfy the `incremental min' - * zone defense algorithm. - * * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light * scan then give up on it. * @@ -2569,6 +2561,7 @@ static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc, unsigned long nr_soft_scanned; gfp_t orig_mask; bool reclaimable = false; + pg_data_t *last_pgdat = NULL; /* * If the number of buffer_heads in the machine exceeds the maximum @@ -2581,11 +2574,17 @@ static bool shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc, for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist, classzone_idx, sc->nodemask) { - if (!populated_zone(zone)) { - sc->reclaim_idx--; - classzone_idx--; + BUG_ON(!populated_zone(zone)); + + /* + * Shrink each node in the zonelist once. If the zonelist is + * ordered by zone (not the default) then a node may be + * shrunk multiple times but in that case the user prefers + * lower zones being preserved + */ + if (zone->zone_pgdat == last_pgdat) continue; - } + last_pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat; /* * Take care memory controller reclaiming has small influence -- 2.6.4 -- 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>