The patch titled Subject: mm: ignore mempolicies when using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-ignore-mempolicies-when-using-alloc_no_watermark.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Subject: mm: ignore mempolicies when using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK The reserve is proportionally distributed over all !highmem zones in the system. So we need to allow an emergency allocation access to all zones. In order to do that we need to break out of any mempolicy boundaries we might have. In my opinion that does not break mempolicies as those are user oriented and not system oriented. That is, system allocations are not guaranteed to be within mempolicy boundaries. For instance IRQs do not even have a mempolicy. So breaking out of mempolicy boundaries for 'rare' emergency allocations, which are always system allocations (as opposed to user) is ok. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-ignore-mempolicies-when-using-alloc_no_watermark mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-ignore-mempolicies-when-using-alloc_no_watermark +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2377,6 +2377,13 @@ rebalance: /* Allocate without watermarks if the context allows */ if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) { + /* + * Ignore mempolicies if ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS on the grounds + * the allocation is high priority and these type of + * allocations are system rather than user orientated + */ + zonelist = node_zonelist(numa_node_id(), gfp_mask); + page = __alloc_pages_high_priority(gfp_mask, order, zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask, preferred_zone, migratetype); _ Subject: Subject: mm: ignore mempolicies when using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch memcg-prevent-oom-with-too-many-dirty-pages.patch memcg-prevent-oom-with-too-many-dirty-pages-fix.patch mm-do-not-use-page_count-without-a-page-pin.patch mm-clean-up-__count_immobile_pages.patch mm-hotplug-correctly-setup-fallback-zonelists-when-creating-new-pgdat.patch mm-hotplug-correctly-add-new-zone-to-all-other-nodes-zone-lists.patch mm-hotplug-free-zone-pageset-when-a-zone-becomes-empty.patch mm-hotplug-mark-memory-hotplug-code-in-page_allocc-as-__meminit.patch mm-factor-out-memory-isolate-functions.patch mm-bug-fix-free-page-check-in-zone_watermark_ok.patch memory-hotplug-fix-kswapd-looping-forever-problem.patch memory-hotplug-fix-kswapd-looping-forever-problem-fix.patch mm-slb-add-knowledge-of-pfmemalloc-reserve-pages.patch mm-slub-optimise-the-slub-fast-path-to-avoid-pfmemalloc-checks.patch mm-introduce-__gfp_memalloc-to-allow-access-to-emergency-reserves.patch mm-allow-pf_memalloc-from-softirq-context.patch mm-only-set-page-pfmemalloc-when-alloc_no_watermarks-was-used.patch mm-ignore-mempolicies-when-using-alloc_no_watermark.patch net-introduce-sk_gfp_atomic-to-allow-addition-of-gfp-flags-depending-on-the-individual-socket.patch netvm-allow-the-use-of-__gfp_memalloc-by-specific-sockets.patch netvm-allow-skb-allocation-to-use-pfmemalloc-reserves.patch netvm-propagate-page-pfmemalloc-to-skb.patch netvm-propagate-page-pfmemalloc-from-skb_alloc_page-to-skb.patch netvm-set-pf_memalloc-as-appropriate-during-skb-processing.patch mm-micro-optimise-slab-to-avoid-a-function-call.patch nbd-set-sock_memalloc-for-access-to-pfmemalloc-reserves.patch mm-throttle-direct-reclaimers-if-pf_memalloc-reserves-are-low-and-swap-is-backed-by-network-storage.patch mm-account-for-the-number-of-times-direct-reclaimers-get-throttled.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html