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author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> | 2016-07-28 22:45:37 (GMT) |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-07-28 23:07:41 (GMT) |
commit | b2e18757f2c9d1cdd746a882e9878852fdec9501 (patch) | |
tree | f30b1fb9cfba840e2d1d032e811f26ce6a4cf381 /virt/Makefile | |
parent | 0f66114893997f781029c109b0974b7f61130df7 (diff) | |
download | linux-b2e18757f2c9d1cdd746a882e9878852fdec9501.tar.xz |
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/1467970510-21195-6-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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