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kswapd: avoid unnecessary rebalance after an unsuccessful balancing
authorAlex,Shi <[email protected]>
Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:08:39 +0000 (17:08 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:30:48 +0000 (17:30 -0700)
commitd2ebd0f6b89567eb93ead4e2ca0cbe03021f344b
tree1f8fc3f7702a8b4d362f5537e135e96f86043f8d
parent64212ec569bfdd094f7a23d9b09862209a983559
kswapd: avoid unnecessary rebalance after an unsuccessful balancing

In commit 215ddd66 ("mm: vmscan: only read new_classzone_idx from pgdat
when reclaiming successfully") , Mel Gorman said kswapd is better to sleep
after a unsuccessful balancing if there is tighter reclaim request pending
in the balancing.  But in the following scenario, kswapd do something that
is not matched our expectation.  The patch fixes this issue.

1, Read pgdat request A (classzone_idx, order = 3)
2, balance_pgdat()
3, During pgdat, a new pgdat request B (classzone_idx, order = 5) is placed
4, balance_pgdat() returns but failed since returned order = 0
5, pgdat of request A assigned to balance_pgdat(), and do balancing again.
   While the expectation behavior of kswapd should try to sleep.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Pádraig Brady <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mm/vmscan.c
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