PF_MEMALLOC direct reclaimers get throttled on a node when the sum of all free pages in each zone fall below half the min watermark. During the summation, we want to exclude zones that don't have reclaimables. Checking the same pgdat over and over again doesn't make sense. Fixes: 599d0c954f91 ("mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node") Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 407b27831ff7..f006140f58c6 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2838,8 +2838,10 @@ static bool pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pg_data_t *pgdat) for (i = 0; i <= ZONE_NORMAL; i++) { zone = &pgdat->node_zones[i]; - if (!managed_zone(zone) || - pgdat_reclaimable_pages(pgdat) == 0) + if (!managed_zone(zone)) + continue; + + if (!zone_reclaimable_pages(zone)) continue; pfmemalloc_reserve += min_wmark_pages(zone); -- 2.11.1 -- 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>