After DEF_PRIORITY, balance_pgdat() considers all_unreclaimable zones to
be balanced but sleeping_prematurely does not. This can force kswapd to
stay awake longer than it should. This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index e1be4e8..5995121 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2237,8 +2237,16 @@ static bool sleeping_prematurely(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining)
if (!populated_zone(zone))
continue;
- if (zone->all_unreclaimable)
+ /*
+ * balance_pgdat() skips over all_unreclaimable after
+ * DEF_PRIORITY. Effectively, it considers them balanced so
+ * they must be considered balanced here as well if kswapd
+ * is to sleep
+ */
+ if (zone->all_unreclaimable) {
+ balanced += zone->present_pages;
continue;
+ }
if (!zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order, high_wmark_pages(zone),
0, 0))
--
1.7.1
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