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Message-Id: <1409250945-30874-70-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:35:17 +0100
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc: Linux-Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 69/97] mm: page_alloc: do not treat a zone that cannot be used for dirty pages as "full"
commit 800a1e750c7b04c2aa2459afca77e936e01c0029 upstream.
If a zone cannot be used for a dirty page then it gets marked "full" which
is cached in the zlc and later potentially skipped by allocation requests
that have nothing to do with dirty zones.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 2834c31..68e0349 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1966,7 +1966,7 @@ zonelist_scan:
*/
if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) &&
(gfp_mask & __GFP_WRITE) && !zone_dirty_ok(zone))
- goto this_zone_full;
+ continue;
mark = zone->watermark[alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK];
if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, mark,
--
1.8.4.5
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