If a zone cannot be used for a dirty page then it gets marked "full" which is cached in the zlc and later potentially skipped by allocation requests that have nothing to do with dirty zones. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index f8b80c3..5c559e3 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1976,7 +1976,7 @@ zonelist_scan: */ if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) && (gfp_mask & __GFP_WRITE) && !zone_dirty_ok(zone)) - goto this_zone_full; + continue; mark = zone->watermark[alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK]; if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, mark, -- 1.8.4.5 -- 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>