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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2011-01-13 15:46:24 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-13 17:32:37 -0800
commit355b09c47a0cbb73b3e65a57c03f157f2e7ddb0b (patch)
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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@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index dafb9d91b604..388a0447b8e8 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2244,8 +2244,16 @@ 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))