Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCHv21 12/16] mm: trigger page reclaim in alloc_contig_range() to stabilise watermarks

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On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Marek Szyprowski
<m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
@@ -5637,6 +5642,56 @@ static int __alloc_contig_migrate_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
       return ret > 0 ? 0 : ret;
 }

+/*
+ * Update zone's cma pages counter used for watermark level calculation.
+ */
+static inline void __update_cma_wmark_pages(struct zone *zone, int count)
+{
+       unsigned long flags;
+       spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
+       zone->min_cma_pages += count;
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
+       setup_per_zone_wmarks();
+}
+
+/*
+ * Trigger memory pressure bump to reclaim some pages in order to be able to
+ * allocate 'count' pages in single page units. Does similar work as
+ *__alloc_pages_slowpath() function.
+ */
+static int __reclaim_pages(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask, int count)
+{
+       enum zone_type high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask);
+       struct zonelist *zonelist = node_zonelist(0, gfp_mask);
+       int did_some_progress = 0;
+       int order = 1;
+       unsigned long watermark;
+
+       /*
+        * Increase level of watermarks to force kswapd do his job
+        * to stabilise at new watermark level.
+        */
+       __modify_min_cma_pages(zone, count);

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:57:58 -0800, Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Marek,   This ^^^ function doesn't seem to exist in this patchset,
is it in another set posted to lkml?

This should read __update_cma_wmark_pages().  Sorry for the incorrect patch.

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