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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910011407390.32006@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 14:09:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>
cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>, Wouter Verhelst <w@...r.be>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
trond.myklebust@....uio.no
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/31] mm: tag reseve pages
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Suresh Jayaraman wrote:
> Index: mmotm/mm/page_alloc.c
> ===================================================================
> --- mmotm.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ mmotm/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1501,8 +1501,10 @@ zonelist_scan:
> try_this_zone:
> page = buffered_rmqueue(preferred_zone, zone, order,
> gfp_mask, migratetype);
> - if (page)
> + if (page) {
> + page->reserve = !!(alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS);
> break;
> + }
> this_zone_full:
> if (NUMA_BUILD)
> zlc_mark_zone_full(zonelist, z);
page->reserve won't necessary indicate that access to reserves was
_necessary_ for the allocation to succeed, though. This will mark any
page being allocated under PF_MEMALLOC as reserve when all zones may be
well above their min watermarks.
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