The patch "mm, vmscan: make shrink_node decisions more node-centric"
checks whether compaction is suitable on empty nodes. This is expensive
rather than wrong but is worth fixing.
This is a fix to the mmotm patch
mm-vmscan-make-shrink_node-decisions-more-node-centric.patch
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 864a3b1e5f8b..4fdb9e419588 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2408,6 +2408,8 @@ static inline bool should_continue_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
/* If compaction would go ahead or the allocation would succeed, stop */
for (z = 0; z <= sc->reclaim_idx; z++) {
struct zone *zone = &pgdat->node_zones[z];
+ if (!populated_zone(zone))
+ continue;
switch (compaction_suitable(zone, sc->order, 0, sc->reclaim_idx)) {
case COMPACT_PARTIAL:
--
2.6.4
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