linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm: kswapd: Use the order that kswapd was reclaiming at for sleeping

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Date:	Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:38:18 -0700
From:	Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] mm: kswapd: Use the order that kswapd was
 reclaiming at for sleeping_prematurely()

On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Mel Gorman wrote:

> Before kswapd goes to sleep, it uses sleeping_prematurely() to check if
> there was a race pushing a zone below its watermark. If the race happened,
> it stays awake. However, balance_pgdat() can decide to reclaim at order-0
> if it decides that high-order reclaim is not working as expected. This
> information is not passed back to sleeping_prematurely().  The impact is
> that kswapd remains awake reclaiming pages long after it should have gone
> to sleep. This patch passes the adjusted order to sleeping_prematurely and
> uses the same logic as balance_pgdat to decide if it's ok to go to sleep.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

Reviewed-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@...bm.net>

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