From: Xiaotian Feng Subject: [PATCH -mmotm 09/30] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:18:32 -0400 Message-ID: <20100713101832.2835.42184.sendpatchset@danny.redhat> References: <20100713101650.2835.15245.sendpatchset@danny.redhat> Cc: riel@redhat.com, cl@linux-foundation.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, Xiaotian Feng , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lwang@redhat.com, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, akpm@linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100713101650.2835.15245.sendpatchset@danny.redhat> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: >From 6d9ae36dfe34cdbc6e1fc52e6db0b27286eb4b58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xiaotian Feng Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:46:50 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 09/30] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK The reserve is proportionally distributed over all (!highmem) zones in the system. So we need to allow an emergency allocation access to all zones. In order to do that we need to break out of any mempolicy boundaries we might have. In my opinion that does not break mempolicies as those are user oriented and not system oriented. That is, system allocations are not guaranteed to be within mempolicy boundaries. For instance IRQs don't even have a mempolicy. So breaking out of mempolicy boundaries for 'rare' emergency allocations, which are always system allocations (as opposed to user) is ok. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng --- mm/page_alloc.c | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 6c85e9e..21d64f7 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1995,6 +1995,11 @@ restart: rebalance: /* Allocate without watermarks if the context allows */ if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) { + /* + * break out mempolicy boundaries + */ + zonelist = node_zonelist(numa_node_id(), gfp_mask); + page = __alloc_pages_high_priority(gfp_mask, order, zonelist, high_zoneidx, nodemask, preferred_zone, migratetype); -- 1.7.1.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org