From f7b60926ebc05944f73d93ffaf6690503b796a88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 15:45:40 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm, vmscan: have kswapd only scan based on the highest requested zone kswapd checks all eligible zones to see if they need balancing even if it was woken for a lower zone. This made sense when we reclaimed on a per-zone basis because we wanted to shrink zones fairly so avoid age-inversion problems. Ideally this is completely unnecessary when reclaiming on a per-node basis. In theory, there may still be anomalies when all requests are for lower zones and very old pages are preserved in higher zones but this should be the exceptional case. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-7-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Hillf Danton Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmscan.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 766b36b..c6e61da 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -3209,11 +3209,8 @@ static int balance_pgdat(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx) sc.nr_reclaimed = 0; - /* - * Scan in the highmem->dma direction for the highest - * zone which needs scanning - */ - for (i = pgdat->nr_zones - 1; i >= 0; i--) { + /* Scan from the highest requested zone to dma */ + for (i = classzone_idx; i >= 0; i--) { struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i; if (!populated_zone(zone)) -- 2.7.4