Re: [PATCH 2/6] mm: kswapd: Keep kswapd awake for high-orderallocations until a percentage of the node is balanced

[Eric B Munson]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Mel Gorman wrote:

> When reclaiming for high-orders, kswapd is responsible for balancing a
> node but it should not reclaim excessively. It avoids excessive reclaim by
> considering if any zone in a node is balanced then the node is balanced. In
> the cases where there are imbalanced zone sizes (e.g. ZONE_DMA with both
> ZONE_DMA32 and ZONE_NORMAL), kswapd can go to sleep prematurely as just
> one small zone was balanced.
> 
> This alters the sleep logic of kswapd slightly. It counts the number of pages
> that make up the balanced zones. If the total number of balanced pages is
> more than a quarter of the zone, kswapd will go back to sleep. This should
> keep a node balanced without reclaiming an excessive number of pages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxx>

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