On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 10:34:41AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > This patch makes reclaim decisions on a per-node basis. A reclaimer knows > what zone is required by the allocation request and skips pages from > higher zones. In many cases this will be ok because it's a GFP_HIGHMEM > request of some description. On 64-bit, ZONE_DMA32 requests will cause > some problems but 32-bit devices on 64-bit platforms are increasingly > rare. Historically it would have been a major problem on 32-bit with big > Highmem:Lowmem ratios but such configurations are also now rare and even > where they exist, they are not encouraged. If it really becomes a > problem, it'll manifest as very low reclaim efficiencies. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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>