The current calculation of min_free_kbytes only uses ZONE_DMA and ZONE_NORMAL pages,but the ZONE_MOVABLE zone->_watermark[WMARK_MIN] will also divide part of min_free_kbytes.This will cause the min watermark of ZONE_NORMAL to be too small in the presence of ZONE_MOVEABLE. __GFP_HIGH and PF_MEMALLOC allocations usually don't need movable zone pages, so just like ZONE_HIGHMEM, cap pages_min to a small value in __setup_per_zone_wmarks(). On my testing machine with 16GB of memory (transparent hugepage is turned off by default, and movablecore=12G is configured) The following is a comparative test data of watermark_min no patch add patch ZONE_DMA 1 8 ZONE_DMA32 151 709 ZONE_NORMAL 233 1113 ZONE_MOVABLE 1434 128 min_free_kbytes 7288 7326 Signed-off-by: liuq <liuq131@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 47421bedc12b..590ed8725e09 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -6362,9 +6362,9 @@ static void __setup_per_zone_wmarks(void) struct zone *zone; unsigned long flags; - /* Calculate total number of !ZONE_HIGHMEM pages */ + /* Calculate total number of !ZONE_HIGHMEM and !ZONE_MOVABLE pages */ for_each_zone(zone) { - if (!is_highmem(zone)) + if (!is_highmem(zone) && zone_idx(zone) != ZONE_MOVABLE) lowmem_pages += zone_managed_pages(zone); } @@ -6374,15 +6374,15 @@ static void __setup_per_zone_wmarks(void) spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags); tmp = (u64)pages_min * zone_managed_pages(zone); do_div(tmp, lowmem_pages); - if (is_highmem(zone)) { + if (is_highmem(zone) || zone_idx(zone) == ZONE_MOVABLE) { /* * __GFP_HIGH and PF_MEMALLOC allocations usually don't - * need highmem pages, so cap pages_min to a small - * value here. + * need highmem and movable zones pages, so cap pages_min + * to a small value here. * * The WMARK_HIGH-WMARK_LOW and (WMARK_LOW-WMARK_MIN) * deltas control async page reclaim, and so should - * not be capped for highmem. + * not be capped for highmem and movable zones. */ unsigned long min_pages; -- 2.27.0