linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/10] mm, page_alloc: Remove unnecessary recalculations for dirty zone balancing

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Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:08:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.com>
cc:	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Pintu Kumar <pintu.k@...sung.com>,
	Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>, Gioh Kim <gioh.kim@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] mm, page_alloc: Remove unnecessary recalculations
 for dirty zone balancing

On Mon, 20 Jul 2015, Mel Gorman wrote:

> From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
> 
> File-backed pages that will be immediately dirtied are balanced between
> zones but it's unnecessarily expensive. Move consider_zone_balanced into
> the alloc_context instead of checking bitmaps multiple times.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>

consider_zone_dirty eliminates zones over their dirty limits and 
zone_dirty_ok() returns true if zones are under their dirty limits, so the 
naming of both are a little strange.  You might consider changing them 
while you're here.
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