Re: [PATCH -mmotm-2010-01-06-14-34] check high watermark after shrink zone

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Fri Jan 08 2010 - 00:30:39 EST


> Kswapd check that zone have enough free by zone_water_mark.
> If any zone doesn't have enough page, it set all_zones_ok to zero.
> all_zone_ok makes kswapd retry not sleeping.
>
> I think the watermark check before shrink zone is pointless.
> Kswapd try to shrink zone then the check is meaningul.

probably s/meaningul/meaningful/ ?

Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


>
> This patch move the check after shrink zone.
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/vmscan.c | 21 +++++++++++----------
> 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 885207a..b81adf8 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -2057,9 +2057,6 @@ loop_again:
> priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
> continue;
>
> - if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order,
> - high_wmark_pages(zone), end_zone, 0))
> - all_zones_ok = 0;
> temp_priority[i] = priority;
> sc.nr_scanned = 0;
> note_zone_scanning_priority(zone, priority);
> @@ -2099,13 +2096,17 @@ loop_again:
> total_scanned > sc.nr_reclaimed + sc.nr_reclaimed / 2)
> sc.may_writepage = 1;
>
> - /*
> - * We are still under min water mark. it mean we have
> - * GFP_ATOMIC allocation failure risk. Hurry up!
> - */
> - if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, min_wmark_pages(zone),
> - end_zone, 0))
> - has_under_min_watermark_zone = 1;
> + if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order,
> + high_wmark_pages(zone), end_zone, 0)) {
> + all_zones_ok = 0;
> + /*
> + * We are still under min water mark. it mean we have
> + * GFP_ATOMIC allocation failure risk. Hurry up!
> + */
> + if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, min_wmark_pages(zone),
> + end_zone, 0))
> + has_under_min_watermark_zone = 1;
> + }
>



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