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

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

> >  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;
> 
> This will make kswapd stop doing reclaim if all zones have
> zone_is_all_unreclaimable():
> 
> 			if (zone_is_all_unreclaimable(zone))
> 				continue;
> 
> This seems bad.

No. That's intentional, I think. All zones of small asymmetric numa
node are always unreclaimable typically. stopping kswapd prevent to
waste 100% cpu time such situation.

In the other hand, This logic doesn't cause disaster to symmetric numa.
it merely cause direct reclaim and re-wakeup kswapd.



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