Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm: vmscan: Correct use of pgdat_balanced insleeping_prematurely

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Fri May 13 2011 - 10:28:39 EST


On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 03:03:21PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Johannes Weiner poined out that the logic in commit [1741c877: mm:
> kswapd: keep kswapd awake for high-order allocations until a percentage
> of the node is balanced] is backwards. Instead of allowing kswapd to go
> to sleep when balancing for high order allocations, it keeps it kswapd
> running uselessly.
>
> From-but-was-not-signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for picking it up, Mel.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Will-sign-off-after-Johannes: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/vmscan.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index f6b435c..af24d1e 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -2286,7 +2286,7 @@ static bool sleeping_prematurely(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining,
> * must be balanced
> */
> if (order)
> - return pgdat_balanced(pgdat, balanced, classzone_idx);
> + return !pgdat_balanced(pgdat, balanced, classzone_idx);
> else
> return !all_zones_ok;
> }
> --
> 1.7.3.4
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