mm, vmscan: begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis
authorMel Gorman <[email protected]>
Thu, 28 Jul 2016 22:45:37 +0000 (15:45 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Thu, 28 Jul 2016 23:07:41 +0000 (16:07 -0700)
commitb2e18757f2c9d1cdd746a882e9878852fdec9501
treef30b1fb9cfba840e2d1d032e811f26ce6a4cf381
parent0f66114893997f781029c109b0974b7f61130df7
mm, vmscan: begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis

This patch makes reclaim decisions on a per-node basis.  A reclaimer
knows what zone is required by the allocation request and skips pages
from higher zones.  In many cases this will be ok because it's a
GFP_HIGHMEM request of some description.  On 64-bit, ZONE_DMA32 requests
will cause some problems but 32-bit devices on 64-bit platforms are
increasingly rare.  Historically it would have been a major problem on
32-bit with big Highmem:Lowmem ratios but such configurations are also
now rare and even where they exist, they are not encouraged.  If it
really becomes a problem, it'll manifest as very low reclaim
efficiencies.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mm/vmscan.c