linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Apply memory policies to top two highest zones when highest zone is ZONE

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Date:	Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:45:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>
cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, pj@....com, Lee.Schermerhorn@...com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Apply memory policies to top two highest zones when
 highest zone is ZONE_MOVABLE

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Mel Gorman wrote:

> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> +/*
> + * Only custom zonelists like MPOL_BIND need to be filtered as part of
> + * policies. As described in the comment for struct zonelist_cache, these
> + * zonelists will not have a zlcache so zlcache_ptr will not be set. Use
> + * that to determine if the zonelists needs to be filtered or not.
> + */
> +static inline int alloc_should_filter_zonelist(struct zonelist *zonelist)
> +{
> +	return !zonelist->zlcache_ptr;
> +}

I guess Paul needs to have a look at this one.

Otherwise

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>

> @@ -1166,6 +1167,18 @@ zonelist_scan:
>  	z = zonelist->zones;
>  
>  	do {
> +		/*
> +		 * In NUMA, this could be a policy zonelist which contains
> +		 * zones that may not be allowed by the current gfp_mask.
> +		 * Check the zone is allowed by the current flags
> +		 */
> +		if (unlikely(alloc_should_filter_zonelist(zonelist))) {
> +			if (highest_zoneidx == -1)
> +				highest_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask);
> +			if (zone_idx(*z) > highest_zoneidx)
> +				continue;
> +		}
> +
>  		if (NUMA_BUILD && zlc_active &&

Hotpath. Sigh.
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