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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, anton@samba.org,
	mpe@ellerman.id.au, "# v3 . 16+" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: Fix nodes for reclaim in fast path
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 09:28:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170208092802.tejkvuz23iyarnvr@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1486532455-29613-1-git-send-email-gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 04:40:55PM +1100, Gavin Shan wrote:
> When @node_reclaim_node isn't 0, the page allocator tries to reclaim
> pages if the amount of free memory in the zones are below the low
> watermark. On Power platform, none of NUMA nodes are scanned for page
> reclaim because no nodes match the condition in zone_allows_reclaim().
> On Power platform, RECLAIM_DISTANCE is set to 10 which is the distance
> of Node-A to Node-A. So the preferred node even won't be scanned for
> page reclaim.
> 
> Fixes: 5f7a75acdb24 ("mm: page_alloc: do not cache reclaim distances")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.16+
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-08  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-08  5:40 Gavin Shan
2017-02-08  9:28 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2017-02-08 10:08 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-08 23:06   ` Gavin Shan
2017-02-09  8:57     ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-08 23:07   ` Gavin Shan

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