From 800a1e750c7b04c2aa2459afca77e936e01c0029 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 16:10:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: do not treat a zone that cannot be used for dirty pages as "full" If a zone cannot be used for a dirty page then it gets marked "full" which is cached in the zlc and later potentially skipped by allocation requests that have nothing to do with dirty zones. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 8e76624..b4381ea 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1967,7 +1967,7 @@ zonelist_scan: */ if ((alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_LOW) && (gfp_mask & __GFP_WRITE) && !zone_dirty_ok(zone)) - goto this_zone_full; + continue; mark = zone->watermark[alloc_flags & ALLOC_WMARK_MASK]; if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, mark, -- 2.7.4