The patch titled
page allocator: always wake kswapd when restarting an allocation attempt after direct reclaim failed
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
page-allocator-always-wake-kswapd-when-restarting-an-allocation-attempt-after-direct-reclaim-failed.patch
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Subject: page allocator: always wake kswapd when restarting an allocation attempt after direct reclaim failed
From: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
If a direct reclaim makes no forward progress, it considers whether it
should go OOM or not. Whether OOM is triggered or not, it may retry the
allocation afterwards. In times past, this would always wake kswapd as
well but currently, kswapd is not woken up after direct reclaim fails.
For order-0 allocations, this makes little difference but if there is a
heavy mix of higher-order allocations that direct reclaim is failing for,
it might mean that kswapd is not rewoken for higher orders as much as it
did previously.
This patch wakes up kswapd when an allocation is being retried after a
direct reclaim failure. It would be expected that kswapd is already
awake, but this has the effect of telling kswapd to reclaim at the higher
order as well.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~page-allocator-always-wake-kswapd-when-restarting-an-allocation-attempt-after-direct-reclaim-failed mm/page_alloc.c
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~page-allocator-always-wake-kswapd-when-restarting-an-allocation-attempt-after-direct-reclaim-failed
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1817,9 +1817,9 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, u
if (NUMA_BUILD && (gfp_mask & GFP_THISNODE) == GFP_THISNODE)
goto nopage;
+restart:
wake_all_kswapd(order, zonelist, high_zoneidx);
-restart:
/*
* OK, we're below the kswapd watermark and have kicked background
* reclaim. Now things get more complex, so set up alloc_flags according
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mel@xxxxxxxxx are
mm-order-evictable-rescue-in-lru-putback.patch
page-allocator-always-wake-kswapd-when-restarting-an-allocation-attempt-after-direct-reclaim-failed.patch
page-allocator-do-not-allow-interrupts-to-use-alloc_harder.patch
vmscan-force-kswapd-to-take-notice-faster-when-high-order-watermarks-are-being-hit.patch
linux-next.patch
mm-warn-once-when-a-page-is-freed-with-pg_mlocked-set.patch
mm-add-notifier-in-pageblock-isolation-for-balloon-drivers.patch
powerpc-make-the-cmm-memory-hotplug-aware.patch
nodemask-make-nodemask_alloc-more-general.patch
hugetlb-rework-hstate_next_node_-functions.patch
hugetlb-add-nodemask-arg-to-huge-page-alloc-free-and-surplus-adjust-functions.patch
hugetlb-add-nodemask-arg-to-huge-page-alloc-free-and-surplus-adjust-functions-fix.patch
hugetlb-factor-init_nodemask_of_node.patch
hugetlb-derive-huge-pages-nodes-allowed-from-task-mempolicy.patch
hugetlb-add-generic-definition-of-numa_no_node.patch
hugetlb-add-per-node-hstate-attributes.patch
hugetlb-update-hugetlb-documentation-for-numa-controls.patch
hugetlb-use-only-nodes-with-memory-for-huge-pages.patch
mm-clear-node-in-n_high_memory-and-stop-kswapd-when-all-memory-is-offlined.patch
hugetlb-handle-memory-hot-plug-events.patch
hugetlb-offload-per-node-attribute-registrations.patch
mm-add-gfp-flags-for-nodemask_alloc-slab-allocations.patch
add-debugging-aid-for-memory-initialisation-problems.patch
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