linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/6] mm: kswapd: Treat zone->all_unreclaimable in sleeping_prematurely similar to balance

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Message-Id: <1291995985-5913-6-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie>
Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:46:24 +0000
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Simon Kirby <sim@...tway.ca>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Subject: [PATCH 5/6] mm: kswapd: Treat zone->all_unreclaimable in sleeping_prematurely similar to balance_pgdat()

After DEF_PRIORITY, balance_pgdat() considers all_unreclaimable zones to
be balanced but sleeping_prematurely does not. This can force kswapd to
stay awake longer than it should. This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
---
 mm/vmscan.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index e1be4e8..5995121 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2237,8 +2237,16 @@ static bool sleeping_prematurely(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining)
 		if (!populated_zone(zone))
 			continue;
 
-		if (zone->all_unreclaimable)
+		/*
+		 * balance_pgdat() skips over all_unreclaimable after
+		 * DEF_PRIORITY. Effectively, it considers them balanced so
+		 * they must be considered balanced here as well if kswapd
+		 * is to sleep
+		 */
+		if (zone->all_unreclaimable) {
+			balanced += zone->present_pages;
 			continue;
+		}
 
 		if (!zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order, high_wmark_pages(zone),
 								0, 0))
-- 
1.7.1

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