linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/27] mm, vmscan: Begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:47:16 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:	Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@...baba-inc.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/27] mm, vmscan: Begin reclaiming pages on a per-node
 basis

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 03:33:25PM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> > @@ -3207,15 +3228,14 @@ static int balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx)
> >  			sc.may_writepage = 1;
> > 
> >  		/*
> > -		 * Now scan the zone in the dma->highmem direction, stopping
> > -		 * at the last zone which needs scanning.
> > -		 *
> > -		 * We do this because the page allocator works in the opposite
> > -		 * direction.  This prevents the page allocator from allocating
> > -		 * pages behind kswapd's direction of progress, which would
> > -		 * cause too much scanning of the lower zones.
> > +		 * Continue scanning in the highmem->dma direction stopping at
> > +		 * the last zone which needs scanning. This may reclaim lowmem
> > +		 * pages that are not necessary for zone balancing but it
> > +		 * preserves LRU ordering. It is assumed that the bulk of
> > +		 * allocation requests can use arbitrary zones with the
> > +		 * possible exception of big highmem:lowmem configurations.
> >  		 */
> > -		for (i = 0; i <= end_zone; i++) {
> > +		for (i = end_zone; i >= end_zone; i--) {
> 
> s/i >= end_zone;/i >= 0;/ ?
> 

Yes although it's eliminated by "mm, vmscan: Make kswapd reclaim in
terms of nodes"

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs