From: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] mm: kswapd: Use the classzone idx that kswapd was using for sleeping_prematurely()
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:38:23 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=4sGZjUqWm4RKs6mgQVma26FeAGUK2zOPVL2oV@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291893500-12342-7-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie>
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
> When kswapd is woken up for a high-order allocation, it takes account of
> the highest usable zone by the caller (the classzone idx). During
> allocation, this index is used to select the lowmem_reserve[] that
> should be applied to the watermark calculation in zone_watermark_ok().
>
> When balancing a node, kswapd considers the highest unbalanced zone to be the
> classzone index. This will always be at least be the callers classzone_idx
> and can be higher. However, sleeping_prematurely() always considers the
> lowest zone (e.g. ZONE_DMA) to be the classzone index. This means that
> sleeping_prematurely() can consider a zone to be balanced that is unusable
> by the allocation request that originally woke kswapd. This patch changes
> sleeping_prematurely() to use a classzone_idx matching the value it used
> in balance_pgdat().
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Nice catch! and it does make sense to me.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-10 2:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-09 11:18 [PATCH 0/5] Prevent kswapd dumping excessive amounts of memory in response to high-order allocations V3 Mel Gorman
2010-12-09 11:18 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm: kswapd: Stop high-order balancing when any suitable zone is balanced Mel Gorman
2010-12-09 15:21 ` Minchan Kim
2010-12-10 1:06 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-12-13 16:54 ` Eric B Munson
2010-12-09 11:18 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm: kswapd: Keep kswapd awake for high-order allocations until a percentage of the node " Mel Gorman
2010-12-09 15:42 ` Minchan Kim
2010-12-10 10:19 ` Mel Gorman
2010-12-10 1:16 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-12-10 10:25 ` Mel Gorman
2010-12-13 17:00 ` Eric B Munson
2010-12-09 11:18 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm: kswapd: Use the order that kswapd was reclaiming at for sleeping_prematurely() Mel Gorman
2010-12-10 1:16 ` Minchan Kim
2010-12-10 10:36 ` Mel Gorman
2010-12-10 1:18 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-12-09 11:18 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm: kswapd: Reset kswapd_max_order and classzone_idx after reading Mel Gorman
2010-12-09 15:59 ` Minchan Kim
2010-12-09 16:03 ` Minchan Kim
2010-12-10 10:42 ` Mel Gorman
2010-12-10 1:19 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-12-09 11:18 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm: kswapd: Treat zone->all_unreclaimable in sleeping_prematurely similar to balance_pgdat() Mel Gorman
2010-12-10 1:23 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-12-10 10:55 ` Mel Gorman
2010-12-12 23:58 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-12-09 11:18 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm: kswapd: Use the classzone idx that kswapd was using for sleeping_prematurely() Mel Gorman
2010-12-10 2:38 ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2010-12-09 11:19 ` [PATCH 0/5] Prevent kswapd dumping excessive amounts of memory in response to high-order allocations V3 Mel Gorman
2010-12-10 15:46 [PATCH 0/6] Prevent kswapd dumping excessive amounts of memory in response to high-order allocations V4 Mel Gorman
2010-12-10 15:46 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm: kswapd: Use the classzone idx that kswapd was using for sleeping_prematurely() Mel Gorman
2010-12-13 19:43 ` Eric B Munson
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